The UK’s National Health Service formally announced plans Friday to ban the use of puberty blockers in minors outside clinical settings.
The NHS closed its only pediatric gender clinic, the Tavistock Gender Clinic, in July 2022. The clinic will be replaced by a community holistic clinic that is more focused on the mental challenges faced by children with gender dysphoria and is more cautious in its adolescent practices. Blockers, heterosexual hormones, gender reassignment surgery, etc. The NHS has drawn up plans to limit child gender transitions, saying many children are reaching a point where they are likely to outgrow their age. (Related: Public Health Secretary Biden Presses Government-Funded Transgender Research in Which Two Participants Suicided)
A review of the hospital clearly Physicians were under pressure to adopt an affirmative approach in their clinics, and the mental challenges these children faced were often ignored, he said. The aspirations of transgender activists exerted an incredible influence on the decisions of clinic doctors, according to the report.
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The NHS has banned the use of puberty inhibitors in children outside of clinical research.
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“We are currently undertaking an interim clinical referral policy that no routine referral of pubertal-suppressing hormones should be given to gender-nonconforming/gender-dysphoric children and adolescents outside of a research setting. Testing is underway for those involved,” the NHS said in a statement.
“NHS England has set up a new National Child and Youth Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board, which will identify pubertal suppressing hormones (“puberty blockers”) as a potential sex-hormone in children and adolescents with early-onset disease. Approved the development of studies on effects on dysphoria. Development of gender dysphoria. ”
Despite President Joe Biden doubling his support for children, European countries such as Norway and Sweden are moving away from prescribing gender reassignment treatments to children. Biden issued a statement in May, blaming states for banning the procedure as “medically necessary.” The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued guidance in support of gender reassignment procedures. Back in 2022, Biden endorsed child gender reassignment during a conversation with controversial transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra admitted in written testimony to the House Committee on Education and Labor on Nov. 29 that he supports using taxpayer money to fund gender reassignment, according to The Daily. Kohler reported exclusively.
Pubertal blockers can cause problems with bone development in children and increase the risk of fractures later in life.Some medical experts believe puberty blockers are being used in young children may put Children on a rapid track to undergo other gender reassignment surgeries.