Today the High Court has agreed that children can be given puberty blockers.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Madness in my opinion. Wilful damage to children.
I’d call it abuse to be honest.

Its a go ahead for an NHS TRIAL, on a restricted group of patients.

The world has gone mad.

Absolutely dreadful. 👎

It looks as if those opposing are consulting lawyers with regard to the possibility of an appeal. I am afraid I don't hold out much hope.

The High Court dismissed a legal challenge brought by campaigners (including the Bayswater Support Group and Keira Bell) who sought to block or pause an ongoing clinical trial However the court upheld the NHS Pathways trial, which evaluates healthcare treatments for transgender youth.

While the UK government has implemented a broad ban on private and routine prescriptions of puberty blockers following the Cass Review, the Cass review explicitly recommended structured clinical trials to safely collect data The High Court ruled that this specific trial was commissioned with conspicuous care and rigorous regulatory approval

Is this the Pathways Trial that came out of the Cass report?
If so my understanding is that it can only be used from age 11 or 12 ... by which time the boat will have sailed for many children.
I looked up what other countries do. Scandinavia seems to be strictest with psychological support being the first line treatment, with other European countries only allowing under very strict conditions.
It would seem that this madness is global.
I speak as GM to a transgender GC who decided they wanted to change their gender as soon as their periods began.
The only treatment that was given wss the pill to stop their periods till they were old enough to decide for themselves and they now buy testosterone privately from their savings. It breaks my heart to see them ... as they really do look weird sadly, but at least they were not assaulted with drugs as a child.

My youngest one day announced he wanted to be a dog. Where is it going to stop

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Some children going through puberty and the emotional upheaval it generates may be confused about their gender, but using them as experimental lab rats before they are mature enough to make an informed decision is child abuse.

100% percent agree. Is it not down to the parents to make that decision?
Nuts imo!

I don’t know enough about this but surely puberty is a rite of passage biologically, cannot see how messing with this is going to end well.
Children are not able to make informed decisions about this no matter how the parents pretend otherwise.

I am disappointed to say the least.

Approximately 15-20% of children presenting for access to puberty blockers are on the spectrum.

This is going to come home to roost in the future with law suits against the prescribers and clinics.

Terrible decision.

In time, with data, I bet historians will be incredulous at this decision.

It’s abuse.

We will look back at this with horror.

Thank you Iam.

Some children going through puberty and the emotional upheaval it generates may be confused about their gender, but using them as experimental lab rats before they are mature enough to make an informed decision is child abuse.

I appreciate the way you phrase your views FGT. like Doodledog, I thought we’d turned the corner on this nonsense

Dislike the word abuse but deliberate long-lasting harm sums it up.

It is abuse. Absolutely diabolical.

So would I.

I had hoped we'd turned the corner on that nonsense.