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”.

  • @[email protected]English
    74•4 months ago

    So does this also apply to precocious puberty or is this purely a fuck you to trans people?

    • Kalkaline English
      39•4 months ago

      They’re going to have to pull an Alabama and do some matching legal and mental gymnastics.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•4 months ago

      You see, every other problem in the UK has been solved, so now all they have left is fucking with people who just want to be happy in their own body.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•4 months ago

        Right-wingers pick on minorities precisely because they have no plans for how to improve life for people in general, and in fact not the slightest interest in doing so. If they were honest about that, no one would vote for them, so they have to invent scapegoats and distractions. Somehow it’s easy to persuade a lot of people that some entirely made up problem is the most urgent, such as some minority coming to destroy their “way of life”, and thereby distract them from all the actual problems you have caused for them.

        Right wing politics is always privileged sociopaths duping the gullible and ignorant.