UK: No More Puberty Blockers–They Are Too Dangerous!

When the Cass Review came out, the UK put a pause on the National Health Service’s use of puberty blockers to “transition” children to treat gender dysphoria. 

The original pause only applied to the NHS, so private and foreign providers could still prescribe these dangerous drugs to children. 

Not anymore. Puberty blockers are now banned for the treatment of gender dysphoria. Period. Full stop. 

This ban specifically addresses the UK-registered private providers as well as overseas suppliers, since NHS England has already stopped the PB use to treat gender dysphoria per its updated policy. The PB trial will begin recruiting patients in April. /2https://t.co/66oxDlCE0y

— SEGM (@segm_ebm) December 11, 2024

It’s no surprise that these drugs are dangerous. They were originally designed to be used in the treatment of cancer and have been used to chemically castrate sex offenders. They should never have been used off-label as they have been to sterilize children, and only have been due to the ideological madness that swept the West over the past decade. 

• Sale and supply of puberty blockers via private prescriptions for the treatment of gender dysphoria and gender incongruence to be banned indefinitely in UK for under-18s
• It follows a targeted consultation and advice on patient safety from the independent Commission on Human Medicines and Cass Review
• Government and NHS continue to improve children’s gender services to provide all-round holistic support
• Legislation will be updated today to make the order indefinite and will be reviewed in 2027

Existing emergency measures banning the sale and supply of puberty-suppressing hormones will be made indefinite, following official advice from medical experts.

The Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) has provided independent expert advice that there is currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children. It recommends indefinite restrictions while work is done to ensure the safety of children and young people.

The NHS stopped the routine prescription of puberty blocker treatments to under-18s following the Cass Review into gender identity services in March. 

Puberty blockers for the treatment of gender dysphoria and gender incongruence in under-18s were banned temporarily in May 2024 after the Cass Review found there was insufficient evidence to show they were safe. Legislation will be updated today to make the order indefinite and will be reviewed in 2027.

The turnaround on gender-bending in Europe has been remarkable. Drastic medical treatments for gender dysphoria were pioneered in Europe, and the UK went all-in on the practice for years. It took massive scandals, especially the so-called Tavistock scandal, to blow the lid off the dangerous practices of the NHS Gender Identity Development Service. 

✍️ ‘Tavistock whistleblowers and the Cass Review reshaped care for transgender children in the UK. In the States, the veil is slowly lifting’ | Writes @suzanne_moore

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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) December 10, 2024

In the succeeding years, most European countries have drastically reduced or shut down their practice of sterilizing and mutilating children to treat mental health problems, but not so in the United States, where in Blue states, the practice is still celebrated. Many of these states will terminate parental rights if they disapprove of gender treatments, and the Supreme Court just heard a case in which the ACLU and others are fighting Tennessee’s ban on gender treatments. 

This transgender lawyer from the ACLU will argue before the Supreme Court that two year olds know they are trans and they should be allowed to undergo gender surgeries.pic.twitter.com/NtelVuyW49

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) December 4, 2024

The argument made by the alphabet ideologists is as simple as it is untrue. The claim is that the hormonal and surgical treatments for gender dysphoria is safe and medically necessary. Puberty blockers are reversible, children know their gender from a young age or even pre-birth, and gender dysphoria is a physical/medical condition and not a mental health one. 

Justice Samuel Alito just crushed ACLU transgender lawyer Chase Strangio with the Cass Report, which found that gender affirming care does not help kids. pic.twitter.com/msvd9wqqGO

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 4, 2024

All of these claims are false. Research shows that they are false. But through the magic of Scientism–appeals to the authority of science without actually relying on science makes something irrefutable. 

It’s the Neil de Grasse Tyson effect: a “scientist” says something so it must be true. Anthony Fauci is science.

You know the drill. 

European countries are waking up to the idiocy and, more importantly, the harm the idiocy does. 

It will take years, at least, for the same to happen here, at least in Blue states.