Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK

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1. Crucially, they’re only being banned for trans under-18s. Cis kids are still allowed to take them. Almost as if it’s about ideology and not safety.

2. >Streeting says he ‘knows what it’s like to feel you have to bury a secret’

   The pet shop thing?

3. I do feel for the kids as they didn’t ask for this, they just want to be happy.

   This country is regressing so much on trans healthcare.

   Also 13 comments with only 4 visible?

4. I don’t really get it, it’s not like they were being handed out like sweets on Halloween. There are/were fewer than 100 kids on them in England, it just seems like a massive overreaction to appease loud mouth anti-trans people.

5. Disgusting, evidence comes out the retraction of official services killed a bunch of kids, and the gov responds by banning private services too on the advice of a person who was explicitly selected (from a list of one) because she had made up her mind on the matter, despite the fact that she has never worked with trans people and has spent the time since parading around the country telling people, without evidence porn makes you trans and demanding adult trans people should be treated like wards of the state for the crime of being trans, and yet we’re to believe her report was beyond reproach.

   You may not understand the depths of how bad this is now, but you’ll be reading articles in 20 years summarising the things they refuse to now, that i mentioned above and thinking to yourself, how could we have done this.

6. Seems smart considering this area of health care (gender affirming treatment for children) is so new.

   This is an entirely new area of medicine and we shouldn’t be handing out treatment without it be rigorously tested and confirmed the pros out weigh the cons

   And, they are still being used as long as it’s part of a trial. Proof that we still want to learn about the treatment, as much as people just want to brand the NHS as transphobic

7. Are they banned for all under 18’s or just trans under 18’s?

   Aren’t there hundreds of under 18’s across the UK currently taking puberty blockers for reasons other than gender dysphoria?

   Edit: Just for trans U18’s according to the article. They will still be in use for children who undergo early puberty, as undergoing early puberty can be very mentally distressing.

   Still curious why preventing mental distress caused by early puberty is worth the “risk” of puberty blockers, but preventing mental distress caused by forcing someone with gender dysphoria to go through puberty is not

8. It seems that the continued deaths of trans kids in Britain – caused by a health system that is intentionally being let fail – will not stop with this current Labour government

   Odious fucking ghouls, the lot of them. How fucking DARE Streeting say with a straight face that he cares about trans people while doing this. Him dating ‘I know it won’t feel like it based on the decisions I’m making today’ is just doing a vicious victory lap

   May he get everything he deserves

9. But… you’ll have hit puberty by then, so who are they supposed to be for?

10. If you think this is the end of this government’s attacks on trans people, I have a bridge that you might be interested in.

    They’ll come for adults trans healthcare next, they’ve shown on many an occasion they’re more concerned with sucking up to TERFs than giving trans people the healthcare they need.

11. There’s bigger issues with trans healthcare than blocker access, who cares if you could *in theory* get blockers early if the system is so badly maintained you’re not even seen until you’re at least 18-20 years old anyway? Fix the system first, honestly. Then people could *at least* get their diagnosis and approval for HRT by 16 (min age for “cross sex hormones”, last I checked).

12. The blood of kids on Streeting’s hands is a sacrifice he’s willing to make for an additional percentage point in a focus group.

13. So is streeting under american influence here or what?
    And if so should we be especially worried about the future of the NHS?

14. Fucking stupid. All the medical evidence suggests its not just not harmful but actively helpful.

15. So glad I got told by devoted Labour campaigners on this sub in the run up to the election that Labour won’t be bad for trans people

16. Yet to see the scientific justification for what should be a medical based decision, & personally I’m uncomfortable with a medication where no questions have been raised about its effectiveness by patients or prescribers being banned for essentially ideological reasons.

    To me that feels antithetical to the NHS and a worrying precedent.

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