Britain bans puberty blockers for transgender minors

[HereForTheParty]

Source: NBC News

The United Kingdom on Wednesday indefinitely banned new prescriptions of puberty blockers to treat minors for gender dysphoria. The announcement comes a week after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case involving state bans on puberty-suppressing medication and other forms of transition-related care for minors.

Puberty blockers are commonly prescribed to transgender children in countries throughout the Western world to delay the onset of puberty or pause it as it is transpiring. The medication is prescribed with the goal of giving children who are experiencing gender dysphoria more time to decide if they want to take more permanent steps to transition genders. Puberty resumes when the medication is no longer taken.

The indefinite ban on the medication in Britain comes several months after an independent study commissioned by England’s National Health Service concluded that the medical evidence around transition-related care for minors is “remarkably weak” and that more research is needed.

“Children’s healthcare must always be evidence-led,” British Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said in a press release. “The independent expert Commission on Human Medicines found that the current prescribing and care pathway for gender dysphoria and incongruence presents an unacceptable safety risk for children and young people.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/britain-bans-puberty-blockers-transgender-minors-rcna183839

[onecaliberal]

1. Fuck these people to hell.

[kelly1mm]

3. The National Health Service under the control of the Liberal Party in the UK? F those people? nt

[onecaliberal]

4. What did those people just do?

[kelly1mm]

5. Made a decision that we are not allowed to discuss the pros and cons of here on DU. nt

[kelly1mm]

2. Be advised that discussions here on DU concerning transgender issues is subject to the terms

of service that do not allow certain perspectives to be expressed, which is certainly the right of the site owners. Just be careful or you may find your posts removed.

[TommyT139]

6. "certain perspectives"

Feel free to elaborate. It sounds like a poorly-disguised dogwhistle to me, but I'm not a site moderator nor a psychic.

The major medical societies in the US hold that prescribing puberty blockers for trans youth -- after clinically-competant assessment -- is good, solid, evidence-based healthcare.

Many people have their own feelings about other peoples' children and how they're raised. People can examine their own discomfort with how the modern world is making room for individual expressions of gender and it's diversity. (Of course, some processing is best done privately, with a therapist.)

But until meeting some young people whose access to necessary care has been delayed long enough for the rest of their lives to be marked and stigmatized by the irreversible changes of a harmful puberty, one should trust the doctors, families, and individuals whose lives are directly affected.

[kelly1mm]

8. I thought I was pretty clear. The site owner here on DU has decided that discussions on this topic

are not allowed, which is the site owners right. Thus there can be no actual discussion where people have differing thoughts on the topic and attempt to persuade others.

There is nothing wrong with that on a private site at all! Just warning people to look at the terms of service and post accordingly so they don't get a hide. Don't you agree?

[TommyT139]

9. You're not making sense

Sometimes the science, combined with informed experience, settles things. Of course, there can be disinformation, disingenuousness, and so on - but those aren't any bases for real discussions.

[sakabatou]

7. How many times do we have to say it?!

Politicians should NOT PLAY DOCTOR!

[Jack Valentino]

11. "we fought two wars so we wouldn't have to listen to the fucking British!!!"

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