Transgender lobbyists are upset that the National Health Service in the UK has announced that children will no longer be given puberty blocker prescriptions following conclusions by health experts that there are serious safety concerns.
The NHS commissioned the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to review the published evidence on Gonadotrophin Releasing Hormone Analogues (GnRHa), AKA puberty blockers, which prevent the body from making sex hormones.
An NHS England policy document published Tuesday noted “NHS England has carefully considered the evidence review conducted by NICE (2020) and has identified and reviewed any further published evidence available to date.”
“We have concluded that there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of PSH (puberty suppressing hormones) to make the treatment routinely available at this time,” the document further noted.
Gender dysphoria treatment will continue on the government run health service in the UK, however puberty blockers will now only be used in clinical trials by following the decision.
The investigation was undertaken after the number of children being referred to Gender Identity Development Service in the UK, which prescribes puberty blockers, shot up from 250 kids in 2012 to more than 5,000 in 2022.
As we highlighted last year, The number of children placed on puberty blockers for ‘gender affirming care’ doubled in the UK in a year despite the NHS saying it would stop the practice.
At least 100 children, some as young as 12, have been given the drugs since July 2022 regardless of the NHS’ decision that month to stop doing so based on a damning review by Dr Hilary Cass, former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Dr Cass warned that puberty blockers could permanently disrupt the brain development of adolescents, and irreversibly rewire neural circuits.
Cass also charged that Tavistock clinic, where the ‘treatment’ is carried out, operates an “affirmative, non-exploratory approach”, diagnosing children with gender dysphoria without proper oversight.
Other critics have charged that the NHS was practising ‘gay conversion therapy’ by using the drugs on children.
Commenting on the NHS decision to ban the drugs, health minister Maria Caulfield said “We welcome this landmark decision by the NHS to end the routine prescription of puberty blockers and this guidance which recognises that care must be based on evidence, expert clinical opinion and in the best interests of the child.”
“The NHS must ensure its Gender Identity Services protect, support and act in the best interests of children and we will continue to work with NHS England to protect children in this area,” she added.
Former prime minister Liz Truss urged that the ban should also be applied to private practices, calling on the government to back her amendment to the Health and Equality Acts Bill to make the prescription of puberty blockers to children completely illegal in the UK.
“I welcome NHS England’s decision to end the routine prescription of puberty blockers to children for gender dysphoria,” she said, adding “I urge the Government to back my Bill on Friday which will reinforce this in law and also prevent these drugs being supplied privately.”
Transgender activists criticised the NHS move, with advocacy group Stonewall stating “All trans young people deserve access to high quality, timely healthcare.”
The group went on to falsely claim that puberty blockers are reversible, stating “For some, an important part of this care comes in the form of puberty blockers, a reversible treatment that delays the onset of puberty, prescribed by expert endocrinologists, giving the young person extra time to evaluate their next steps. We are concerned that NHS England will be putting new prescriptions on hold until a research protocol is up and running at the end of 2024.”
Trans activists also took to social media to complain that confused children will no longer have puberty blockers prescribed to them on the NHS, encouraging people to sue the ‘far right’ health service and go private instead, and claiming that “cis kids” will still get puberty blockers prescribed to them.
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Finally, a single pinpoint light of hope in an otherwise dark and miserable void. Of course, this vile behaviour should never have been allowed in the first place- especially not to children- but at least there is still a little sanity left somewhere in the great monolithic machine that is the NHS…