A Landmark Lawsuit for Gender-Confused Minors. The British High Court bans puberty-blocking drugs for under-16s.

National Review ^ | December 15, 2020 | Madeline Kearns

[karpov]

There is perhaps no aspect of the gender-identity debate more emotionally fraught than the question of what to do about children who say they are transgender. In recent years, lavishly funded transgender-lobby groups have fought hard to implement what they claim is a medical “pause button” whereby gender-dysphoric children and young people are administered “puberty-blocking” drugs that, activists claim, buy these minors more time on the road to transition.

Only the most pernicious of euphemisms can justify such a gung-ho approach to this medical intervention. For not only are these drugs experimental, but they are also, in almost every instance, followed by a regimen of cross-sex hormones that compromises a young person’s fertility and sexual function. Puberty blockers are not a “pause button,” then, but a nuclear button, setting children on the path to irreversible bodily impairment they may well deeply regret. (This, of course, is to say nothing of the fact that the vast majority of children grow out of gender dysphoria by late adolescence.)

So just when, exactly, is a young person competent to consent to such treatment? At 13 or younger? “Highly unlikely.” What about at 14 or 15? “Doubtful.” How about at 16 or 17? Well, since the drugs are “experimental” and “truly life-changing,” even clinicians treating those nearly at the age of legal adulthood must first consult the courts before prescribing them. But don’t take my word for it: This is the ruling of England’s High Court, which, earlier this month, decreed that children are unable to consent to transgender medical interventions.

[Ron H.]

If it is truly banned then does this mean the faggots are going to get their rainbow colored panties in a bunch?

[maddog55]

Thankfully my kids brought my grandkids up right. Only thing they wanted to be were Transformers.

[BobL]

Leftist Response: Something needs to be done about the intolerance at the High Court.

[teeman8r]

yay... now if the US will follow... but i doubt it.