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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

NHS trans drug trial ‘betrays our children’

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IwantToRetire · 23/11/2025 01:24

Puberty blockers will be given to more than 200 young people, potentially as young as eight, who think they may be transgender.

Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, banned the drugs last year because of “unacceptable safety risks”, but they can still be administered as part of clinical trials for patients who meet certain criteria.

For the NHS trial, being run by King’s College London (KCL), children who show a “persisting desire” for the drugs and are deemed by gender doctors as standing a “reasonable prospect of benefit” could be eligible.

Children will be screened for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, but participants who are deemed to have such conditions will not be excluded from the trial.

While researchers running the trial acknowledged that children faced potential harm in their cognitive and sexual development, they claimed the risks of not prescribing the drugs could include depression and self-harm.

Article continues at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/22/nhs-trans-drug-trial-betrays-our-children/ and at https://archive.is/cyLf9

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Datun · 26/11/2025 07:16

MinnieCauldwell · 25/11/2025 16:42

Thank you. I can't get my head around someone not having a puberty and what their life would be.

Apart from anything else they will be chronologically and legally an adult, but with the genitalia (and mindset) of a child.

Consider who might want that.

MinnieCauldwell · 26/11/2025 09:05

Datun · 26/11/2025 07:16

Apart from anything else they will be chronologically and legally an adult, but with the genitalia (and mindset) of a child.

Consider who might want that.

I think I may have read years ago that the majority of children that have been on PBs go onto take CSHs and so called affirming surgery. Seems that PBs taken over to long a time put them on the 'trans train' rather than a 'pause' to think about things.

AstonScrapingsNameChange · 26/11/2025 11:37

MinnieCauldwell · 26/11/2025 09:05

I think I may have read years ago that the majority of children that have been on PBs go onto take CSHs and so called affirming surgery. Seems that PBs taken over to long a time put them on the 'trans train' rather than a 'pause' to think about things.

Absolutely this

Brainworm · 26/11/2025 11:45

MinnieCauldwell · 26/11/2025 09:05

I think I may have read years ago that the majority of children that have been on PBs go onto take CSHs and so called affirming surgery. Seems that PBs taken over to long a time put them on the 'trans train' rather than a 'pause' to think about things.

The Tavi claimed that this finding proved that the correct children were being given puberty blockers because very few of those who didn’t take them went on to take cross sex hormones!

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