Puberty blockers for under-18s with gender dysphoria will be banned indefinitely across the UK except for use in clinical trials, the government has announced.
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said that after receiving advice from medical experts, he would make existing emergency measures banning the sale and supply of puberty blockers indefinite.
The Department of Health and Social Care said the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) had published independent expert advice that there was “currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children”.
So puberty blockers are not legal until puberty is over? Makes complete sense /s
Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s with gender dysphoria across UK
I fixed the title. Of course, they’re still available for other medical conditions, they’re just singling out gender dysphoria.
“Medical Experts”
I don’t know about the issue enough for me to comment on if she is biased or not, but I found this NYT interview (archive.org link) and she really seems to try to be playing both sides to me. Her main arguement seems to be don’t treat this as an issue to resolve gender, that makes you ignore mental health/depression/other things, but with there not being the best care of that nature available for trans individuals, what avenue is left for them?
It sounds like she wants to go on about a lack of enough proof for her to stop treatment, but it also doesn’t sound like she has enough proof to say it’s harmful, but that doesn’t seem to discourage her helping eliminate it.
Wes Streeting is pro child self-harm, at least as long as those children are trans. Fucking scum
Unacceptable safety risk in trans kids feeling comfortable with who they are as human beings.
These monsters just hate trans kids so much. TERF island strikes again.
WTF puberty blockers aren’t used for only trans kids. They are also used to treat precocious puberty.
That’s still legal. Only banned for gender dysmorphia.
*dysphoria
different word, common mistake
That is messed up as heck.
What do they think puberty blockers do?
think
I’m gonna stop you right there, no useful thought process was involved here at all.
Care to elaborate on the safety risks there, Wes?
While I don’t agree with it’s findings, there is a 388-page report this decision is based on.
that was debunked numerous times
What was the debunked? That a report exists?
The report exists, but it has so many errors, misinterpreting its own data to bend to the conclusions its authors decided they wanted to find, lots of cherry picking, and ignoring any fact inconvenient to its conclusions.
Imagine a paper that concludes that dowsing or homeopathy is good science. It’s about that accurate.
Also it was commissioned by the Tories, to be done by a woman who before even starting her research for the report, was clearly biased against trans people.
If you manipulate the data, a lie will sell itself.
the entire points of the report were debunked… like a lot
K…I started my original comment with, “While I don’t agree with it’s findings,” and was responding to a comment asking for elaboration on the safety risks. I was just providing context, not stating the report was gospel-truth or anything.
Wait… are you saying you are a messenger? GET HIM!!!1111
Can you highlight the main errors of the report?
well considering the author, herself, backpeddled
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dr-cass-backpedals-from-review-hrt
link the debunking pls
A review of the infamous CASS report:
Results from 5 uncontrolled, observational studies suggest that, in children and adolescents with gender dysphoria, gender-affirming hormones are likely to improve symptoms of gender dysphoria, and may also improve depression, anxiety, quality of life, suicidality, and psychosocial functioning. The impact of treatment on body image is unclear. All results were of very low certainty using modified GRADE
Safety outcomes were reported in 5 observational studies. Statistically significant increases in some measures of bone density were seen following treatment with gender-affirming hormones, although results varied by bone region (lumber spine versus femoral neck) and by population (transfemales versus transmales). However, z-scores suggest that bone density remained lower in transfemales and transmales compared with an equivalent cisgender population. Results from 1 study of gender-affirming hormones started during adolescence reported statistically significant increases in blood pressure and body mass index, and worsening of the lipid profile (in transmales) at age 22 years, although longer term studies that report on cardiovascular event rates are required. Adverse events and discontinuation rates associated with gender-affirming hormones were only reported in 1 study, and no conclusions can be made on these outcomes.
This document was prepared in October 2020
Evidence review (.PDF): Gender-affirming hormones for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria https://cass.independent-review.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20220726_Evidence-review_Gender-affirming-hormones_For-upload_Final.pdf
Other reading:
Fact Check: New York Times Publishes Misleading Story On Puberty Blocker Study
Watching:
Exposing the Dangers of Anti-Trans Fascism | RE: The Cass Review & Labour’s Downfall
Next they’re gonna make Harry Potter mandatory reading.
evil fucking bastards
That’s not for them to decide, they’re not the experts.
They are acting upon the recommendation of the largest systematic review of the evidence in the UK to date.
The plan is " to set up a clinical trial into the use of puberty blockers next year and to recruit the first patients by spring. Streeting said the study would help “establish a clear evidence base for the use of this medicine”."
Essentially, the research on this has been so polarized, the results so conflicting and the science riddled with terrible methodology etc that the government is saying “fuck it, we’ll establish our own gigantic study.”
Removed by mod
Ouch.
