High Court judge in the UK upholds the government ban on puberty blockers

AP ^ | 7/29/24 | staff

[CFW]

LONDON (AP) — A High Court judge on Monday upheld the British government’s emergency ban on puberty blockers, saying a study that found “very substantial risks and very narrow benefits” of the treatment supported the restriction as potentially being harmful.

Justice Beverley Lang said a review commissioned by England’s National Health Service concluded that gender care is an area of “remarkably weak evidence” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse.”

The group TransActual and a youth who cannot be named under a court order sought to challenge the decision of former Health secretary Victoria Atkins to ban prescribing hormones that can pause the development of puberty. They are sometimes prescribed to help children with gender dysphoria by giving them more time to consider options that could include gender reassignment.

The judge threw out the challenge, saying the ban was lawful. The ban restricts the NHS from providing the medication outside of clinical trials and prevents it from being prescribed by private suppliers.

[CFW]

Is the tide turning? Is the pendulum starting to swing the other way?

[TexasFreeper2009]

is it flat out child abuse

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

If a virtue-signalling Labour government can uphold the ban then that looks to be the case.

Remains to be seen if the US follows suit.

[Sir Bangaz Cracka]

Our progressives are more deranged that UK’s.