Health secretary says emergency measures banning sale and supply will be made indefinite after expert advice

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”.

    • nfhEnglish
      8•12 hours ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 hours ago

        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.

    • katy ✨English
      7•12 hours ago

      the entire points of the report were debunked… like a lot

      • @[email protected]English
        7•12 hours ago

        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.

        • @STOMPYIEnglish
          4•9 hours ago

          Wait… are you saying you are a messenger? GET HIM!!!1111