Puberty Blocker Trial Paused

How could children and young people ever be able to give informed consent to this potentially life altering experiment? It’s just not possible. I can’t understand how it could gain ethical approval in the first place.

Agree Palestine?

For once it’s adults losing it not children being harmed so that’s good.

This is already sometimes done / should be considered for children facing cancer treatment …the crucial difference though is the reason for doing so.

I find it quite shocking, actually, that people can STILL go round merrily spouting outright lies ("PBs are reversible") with such blasé impunity.

Along with the completely unsubstantiated ones such as "most marginalised" wah wah nonsense. They literally just made it up!

I think people like India know full well if you pack enough bullshit into one sentence, it becomes impossible to rebut without looking like a lunatic yourself. So you have to pick only the most dangerous lie to deal with, and then the rest gets written into canon.

As someone who didn’t experience / know what an orgasm was until my late 20’s despite being sexually active since 18 ( yes, I know!!) and having met numerous people who were anti or ambivalent about having children until their 30’s, I can’t imagine it’s ever really possible to meaningfully consent a child or young person under 18 about sexual pleasure/ fertility impacts. It’s always predicated from the perspective of adult transitioners who wish their body was different in adulthood. When you consider the bias/ dissuasion and assertion of risks regarding HRT for mature, capable women that goes on by some medical practitioners, it makes this trial doubly hard to understand.

For those not on X

'What a fucking disgrace. This is totally unacceptable. Trans people have ZERO say over our healthcare. We are dictated to by our enemies - the Gender Criticals. Palestine/Israel. Puberty blockers are totally safe. You prescribe them to c!s kids, you FUCKER. You are a disgrace
@wesstreeting
. The most transphobic country in the world. 50 dead kids so far because of this. Torture. Disguised conversion therapy. By 14, puberty is already taking effect. SCANDAL. Billionaires and connections. An Evangelical health minister. This country is so corrupt.'
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(Er wtf has Palestine got to do with this??)

A trantrum if you will...😊

Are these new concerns the same old concerns that everyone has always had but no one in charge listened to?

Excellent news. I see IW is having a tantrum already 😂

Thank fuck

Whereas in reality the children caught up in this are already children struggling with other mental health conditions and wider learning disorders. I have come across a child who was puberty blocked at aged 11 who had foetal alcohol syndrome, an IQ of 70 and who was living out of home (deliberately being a bit vague) who was still deemed able to consent.

Activists say, “If you could just meet the children you’d understand”, whereas if the cohort was introduced to the wider public everyone would be WTF. They’re not the sparkly, bright articulate trans-identified kids you see on TV. They’re anxious, socially isolated children without a strong sense of self.

The risks to long-term fertility will be discussed with each CYP child,"

Seeing, child written feels so chilling. How can an adult sit in front of a child and discuss options and as someone above mentioned how would you propose getting eggs or sperm from a child...awful just awful.

It’s almost as though all these allegedly clever people didn’t actually realise that puberty blockers actually…block puberty. Until now.

And, actually, well done to all the wims (and men) on here.

I'm constantly in awe of the knowledge, insight and resilience of the posters on here.

Keep going! It's happening, it's turning!

Hannah Barnes

https://x.com/i/status/2024940290050535563

Total shame on our government for wanting to use drugs on our children which are harmful and detrimental to their future health and promising £500 to these children

so disgraceful

Great news, but as others have said it should never have got this far. Well done Esses and Bell.

Well done Esses and Bell! 👏

I hope it’s cancelled altogether.

Shame on the gov and Streeting for pushing ahead to start with.

Massive well done to Sex Matters and those pushing against it and getting somewhere.

Bet the kids are gutted they've lost the promised £500 pocket money.

How do you even go about preserving the fertility of an 8 year old?

8 years old. Ffs

they don’t even know what they want for their tea.

unbelievable that our government thought this was acceptable

Not to make light of it at all, but I was reading somewhere earlier about (men's) orgasms being described as like a sneeze. Imagine a child going "yeah ok, never sneezing again, I can live with that!" ..... and then an actual adult not seeing anything wrong with that.

I would be very concerned about any 8 year old child that could fully understand what it means to permanently lose the ability to orgasm.
As for the parents - disgraceful