Telegraph: NHS will not offer puberty blockers routinely

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"NHS will not offer puberty blockers to children suffering from gender dysphoria

"Clinicians and psychologists said the decision “will go down in history” in the safeguarding of children.

"Guidance for two new regional gender clinics opening in England confirmed that the hormone-suppressing drugs would not be “routinely offered”.

I find this a bit woolly. But surely a step in the right direction?

They arent 'routinely' offered anyway are they????

Link here, though there is a paywall.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/09/nhs-no-puberty-blockers-to-gender-confused-children/

Some highlights:

On Friday, NHS England published an update following its previously stated intention to only commission puberty-suppressing hormones as part of clinical research.
It read: “We are... proposing that, outside of a research setting, puberty-suppressing hormones should not be routinely commissioned for children and adolescents who have gender incongruence/dysphoria.”
A spokesman confirmed that children treated at the new gender clinics would not be routinely offered puberty blockers as part of their treatment, but there may be exceptional circumstances in which a clinician could make a case for a child to have them....

The NHS said it aimed to start a study by next year on the impact of puberty blockers on gender dysphoria in children and young people with early-onset gender dysphoria.

That's what I thought, MMorales - hence the woolliness

According to some of the TRAs on twitter the only way anyone (under 18 ?) will get puberty blockers is by being part of a drug trial which will be run under full NICE clinical drug trail protocols. Which ofcourse is the worst kind of bullying blackmail which coerces vulnerable minors into participating in the unethical drug trail just to get life saving treatment.
If they are correct about the drug trail protocols then this is a very good thing. There will be robust data collection and proper evidence based evaluation of all outcomes over decades unless they shut it down early due to the adverse effects on the patients/participants in which case the drugs will be banned from use in gender dysphoria minors and perhaps even adults.
Basically this is a win win for us in this battle as we either get the full long term evidence that will stand up to all scrutiny or they are proven so dangerous that they cannot be safely and ethically trailed and as such cannot be used to treat children