Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says
Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says
Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at NHS England gender identity clinics in a “blow” to gender-affirming healthcare.
Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at NHS England gender identity clinics in a new “blow” to gender-affirming healthcare.
Puberty blockers are a type of medicine that prevent puberty from starting by blocking the hormones – like testosterone and oestrogen – that lead to puberty-related changes in the body. In the case of trans youth, this can delay unwanted physical changes like menstruation, breast growth, voice changes or facial hair growth.
On Tuesday (12 March), NHS England confirmed the medicine, which has been described as “life-saving” medical care for trans youth, will only be available to young people as part of clinical research trials.
The government described the move as a “landmark decision”, Sky News reported. It believed such a move is in the “best interests of the child”.
God damn Tories. What do they know about “best interests of the child” that a doctor doesn't already know? Less than nothing is the answer.
If a young person is suffering from gender dysmorphia to the point of considering gender affirmation procedures, then I think it'd be in their best interest to not exacerbate that condition. Delaying the onset of puberty via puberty blockers until they're at the age where that can legally consent to such procedures isn't exactly novel.
Even if they eventually decide not to undergo those procedures, all you habr to do is take them off the blockers and they'd undergo puberty as normal. There's not all that much downside for an awful lot of upside for those in need.
Oh, great. Vulnerable children and desperate parents searching for prescription medication on the black market. What could go wrong?
Mission accomplished.
Right wing conservatives can go pound sand. Talk about the government pushing itself between a doctor and patient care.
A landmark bullshit decision.
TERF island strikes again
I dont want to speak to the social aspect of this issue, but I have to imagine that blocking puberty has some crazy side effects. How long has this medical technology been in use and where can I find studies about it? Again, I know this is sensitive and I am just curious from a biological standpoint.
I thought quackery was illegal, but apparently not when it's *fundamentalists in politics.
*Fundamentalists as in fundamentally sociopaths.
welcome to TERF island
It's all part of the NHS War On Mental Health. The plan is remove treatments that conservatives don't believe in because they can't see them. They will take those savings and use them to extend the lives of terminally ill people in persistent vegetative states because life is sacred and needs to be protracted and painful.
Just when I though the UK couldn't disappoint any further.
Christo-fascists run too many gov'ts
Tuut
Right wing twats trying their best to destroy as many children as they can
Perfectly normal island 🥲
We know so little about the actual process of gender dysphoria. Hormone blockers don't solve or fix anything, but have been used simply because it's the only thing that does something. Essentially bringing a blunt instrument to the problem.
Considering the harmful nature of hormone blockers, I'm for not prescribing puberty blockers to youth. However, only so long as more research is put into it.
Fact: Lots of things happening in the UK for those who do not know:
Why was the Tavistock experiment allowed to go on for so long?
Hopefully, this will be the end for the cult of trans, which reels in impressionable young people when they aren’t sure who they are
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/02/15/why-tavistock-experiment-allowed-go-long/
Tavistock transgender clinic shut down by NHS after review finds it is ‘not safe’ for children
Young people who believe that they are trans will be moved into regional centres which will take a more 'holistic' approach to treatment
"The decision is a response to the interim Cass Review, which warned that medics in the Tavistock had felt “under pressure to adopt an unquestioning affirmative approach” to gender identity rather than going through the normal process of clinic assessment with young people."
PS: Do not shot the messenger. I was not the one who carried the investigations nor did the abuse as per described in the articles.