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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Promoting puberty blockers is an offence

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Lovelyricepudding · 07/12/2021 21:29

It is an offence to promote any licensable medicine outside the terms of its license. The Regulations provide that it is an offence for any person to breach the regulations. The regulations also apply to discussion forums and website providers should ensure that materials posted on the Internet do not contravene the regulations.

If you wish to complain send a copy of the post promoting the medicine, along with the reason for your concern, to [email protected]

Taken from: www.gov.uk/government/publications/blue-guide-advertising-and-promoting-medicines

Promoting puberty blockers is an offence, not 'advice'.

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PaleBlueMoonlight · 07/12/2021 21:34

What an interesting and somehow obvious discovery.

Alekto · 07/12/2021 21:43

Ooh. That's very interesting! Thanks OP Thanks

ArabellaScott · 07/12/2021 21:55

Wow.

Lovelyricepudding · 07/12/2021 21:58

Sorry typo in complaint address:

[email protected]

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ArabellaScott · 07/12/2021 22:00

So if any website is describing 'proven positive effects' and 'benefits' of puberty blockers, that is an offense?

There are several websites that are doing this.

ForbiddentoForbid · 07/12/2021 22:01

Well done for posting this op.

NecessaryScene · 07/12/2021 22:10

I suspect this regulation is somewhat narrowly drawn around promoting a specific medicine rather than a class, as licenses are given to specific drugs.

Still worth looking at. Anything like GenderGP talking about supplying specific puberty blockers could well fall foul of this.

Also cross-sex hormones, potentially?

Lovelyricepudding · 07/12/2021 22:22

Puberty blockers are prescribed off-licence. Cross sex hormones might be prescribed within the terms of their licence but as prescription-only drugs they must not be advertised to public. This is UK of course and GenderGP isn't presumably to get round just this sort of thing.

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BreadInCaptivity · 07/12/2021 22:24

How very interesting....

NecessaryScene · 08/12/2021 11:53

Puberty blockers are prescribed off-licence.

Indeed, but the licenses are for specific drugs. So if they promote Lupron or whatever specifically, they're definitely in trouble, but would the rule prevent promoting "puberty blockers" in general? Even if NO "puberty blocker" is licensed?

Reading through the docs on your link, I don't find it clear. You definitely can't name any treatments:

Unlicensed medicines should not be mentioned, to comply with regulation 279 of the Regulations which prohibits advertising of medicines for which no marketing authorisation or registration is in force. Treatments that involve the use of unlicensed medicines may not be described as ‘clinically proven’ or similar.

That seems to make it clear that you would be in trouble making claims about the benefits of puberty blockers, if they're all unlicensed.

But I can't see anything in there directly ruling out people providing a prescription service for off label drugs in that document, as GenderGP do, as long as they don't name them, and are careful about the claims made. They would of course have to answer to their own regulators about whether the prescriptions were suitable.

This is the general guidance:

On the homepage, only indicative prices for a particular medical condition may be provided, for example, “Erectile dysfunction treatment - £20 for a medical consultation, £50 for an initial course of 4 treatments.”

And then there's more blurb about how you could provide price lists for specific treatments, but that wouldn't apply for off-license stuff as per the previous quote.

Thelnebriati · 08/12/2021 12:03

Not only are puberty blockers used off licence, they are by definition given to children and they interfere with the normal development of sexual organs and fertility.

Cuck00soup · 08/12/2021 20:31

Thank you for pointing this out OP.

Hoardasurass · 08/12/2021 21:53

Thanks op

PrincessNutella · 09/12/2021 15:33

Brilliant!!

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