This case is to challenge the CQC’s licensing of a private clinic to provide cross sex hormones to teenagers. If successful it will help towards stopping other private practices from trying to do the same thing.
There’s still some gardening to be done and the allotment can be found by searching for PROTECT TEENAGERS FROM HARMFUL AND IRREVERSIBLE MEDICAL TREATMENT.
From the their page:
‘Tomorrow, 24th and 25th of June at the Royal Courts of Justice in London will be the moment our team has worked towards. If you can come along at any stage, we would be very happy to see you there’
‘My solicitors heard from the High Court that Mr Justice Foxton had given me and parent X permission to challenge the decision of the CQC to license GenderPlus Hormone Clinic. The judge was very concerned that the CQC may have licensed GenderPlus without having all the necessary information it needed to assure itself that providing cross sex hormone treatment to teenagers was a safe treatment. The judge was also concerned that by granting licensing to GenderPlus the CQC was acting irrationally.
We now know that, in the light of the Cass Review, there are hugely significant concerns about cross sex hormone treatment. The consequences are lifelong and the evidence to support this treatment is currently extremely poor.
Our case will now proceed to trial. We are so grateful for those who have supported us thus far. We need to get this case across the line and finally protect vulnerable teenagers from experimental treatment that is not evidenced and may have profound lifelong irreversible consequences. The serious and troubling question regarding the ability of young patients to give 'informed consent' to this treatment remains.’