Rushed through last minute before parliament is dissolved using emergency powers.
Should’ve been debated in the commons at least.
No new patients under the age of 18 in England, Wales and Scotland will be given hormones to suppress puberty if they are experiencing gender dysphoria
Puberty blockers sure are funny old things, somehow they’re safe to prescribe to cis kids, but when prescribed to trans kids they suddenly become dangerous. I’m sure this is a purely evidence based policy. It must be. Wes Streeting has already endorsed it and, as people on here keep saying, Labour are the trans-friendly™ option. They wouldn’t just throw trans kids under the bus.
Transkids get access to these drugs just as easily as ciskids.
I mean, not if they’re banned as per the OP, surely? Not sure what you mean here?
They aren’t banned for use as a treatment for precocious puberty, which presumably is something anyone can suffer from trans or otherwise.
Yeah but they’re banned for use for kids who suffer from gender dysphoria, which is a condition that by definition only trans people have, so it’s absolutely restricting access to them based on them being trans.
They aren’t banned for kids who suffer from dysphoria. They are banned from being used as a treatment for dysphoria. Important difference.
That is a pointless difference in practice, because kids who suffer from gender dysphoria would use these meds for treatment of said dysphoria and do in the rest of the world that follows the expert guidance from WPATH, and now they can’t, and the kids will suffer as a result. But hey at least the transes will be mad innit.
