'The Telegraph revealed in July that the Government would make a temporary ban on the powerful drugs permanent, but it only covered England, Wales and Scotland. The High Court <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/JzJXM/www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/29/conservatives-ban-puberty-blockers-lawful-high-court/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ruled the ban in Britain was lawful after a challenge by transgender rights campaigners.
The same month, Ms Green set up a private clinic called Anne Health in Northern Ireland to provide puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to under-18s.
Susie Green, who set up a private clinic in Northern Ireland, is the former chief executive of Mermaids, the controversial trans charity
She told i news that lawyers behind the court challenge had advised her on how to get around the bans.
She consulted David Lock KC, and Jolyon Maugham KC, the director of the Good Law Project, who both agreed the regulations “prohibited the sale or supply [of puberty blockers] – but not the importation”.
Ms Green also planned to hire doctors who are regulated to practise medicine in the European Economic Area rather than the UK because they are free to write prescriptions and “are regulated by their own medical bodies outside of the UK”.
“We’ve got a network of Northern Ireland families who are willing to take receipt of medication sent to them,” Ms Green said. “The families just need to go over there and the kids need to get the medication and if they bring it back it exploits this legal loophole.”