Update on the puberty blockers trial

FFS we don't allow under 18's to get a tattoo [or their parents to consent to it] The harms are there in plain sight.........😡

Now we know that children with ASD are particularly drawn to identifying as transexuals, as well as children who have been sexually abused….this is deplorable. How can politicians be so spineless

I was an actual "trans kid", in that I "knew" I was a boy from a very young age, and transitioned much later as an adult. And yet...

They say the kid can give their assent - yes, but to what? In my case, if I'd been asked at age 11, I wouldn't have given my assent to go through the trial or not: I would simply have given my assent to whatever my mother wanted.

I trusted my mother and the adults around me to have my best interests at heart. I trusted that they knew better than me. So if they'd told me, "You should do it", I would have said yes, even if I'd been scared to death or reluctant for whatever reason. And if they'd said, "Don't do it," I would have refused to do it, no matter how desperately I might have wanted a chance to become more like a boy.

It would have had nothing to do with what I wanted to do - and everything to do with what the adults around me wanted me to do.

It breaks my mind that anyone who works with children can not be aware of that. And my heart is also breaking for the children who will be grossly abused during this trial. It's wrong, it's evil, and there's no excuse for it.

This is absolutely horrendous. In what world is it ethical to offer this treatment to anyone under 18?

They have learned NOTHING since they announced the trial the first time. Shopping vouchers? Up to £500? What eleven year old child who is either desperate or has been told by her parents that she can be a boy, would turn down such an incentive?

Everyone involved in this should be in prison, including Cass.

This is terrible. Both that it is going ahead at all, and that the children involved are so young.

A couple of wtf moments: "Children taking part in the trial will be promised up to £500 in Love2Shop vouchers"

And: "A lower age limit was not previously introduced as good ethical practice dictates that children who are clinically eligible should not be discriminated against on age alone"

Also, why can girls participate at a younger age than boys? Presumably because girls start puberty earlier. But just because girls' bodies mature faster doesn't mean their minds mature faster. This is from the same mindset that thinks it's a less serious crime to have sex with underage teenage girls than with boys because those girls are "more mature" than boys of the same age

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5544405-to-think-11-year-old-girls-should-not-be-eligible-for-the-newly-restarted-puberty-blockers-trial

These children will be the guinea pigs so that Someone In Charge can finally stand up and be the adult who says to the activists, 'these drugs are too dangerous, which we now have proven evidence for, so now we are going to ban them'.

Twenty years from now when they find out what kind of 'lives' these children turn out to have.

The double standard drives me mad. I recently saw the green party were considering supporting a ban on child circumcision because kids can't make that choice, but they totally support kids making the choice to permanently sterilise themselves.

Either kids can consent to these things, or they can't. (They can't) They can't have it both ways

Creeps

Under 16s to be banned from social media but 11 year olds can consent to future sterilisation, harm to their mental and physical development and a limited adult sex life.

Make it make sense.

So they're going to deliberately create sterile adults who have no sexual function, and everyone is powerless to stop them. Including the politicians who say they are uncomfortable with the idea.

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