Streeting declares the puberty blocker trial 'safe'

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https://archive.ph/CFzK4

'On Monday, Mr Streeting reiterated that he was not “comfortable” with the trial, which involves more than 200 people under the age of 16, but said there were significant “checks, balances and safeguards” that made it safe.

He told Sky News: “The thing I’ve had to continually weigh up is that for lots of people who have been through this sort of gender identity treatment, they describe it as life-affirming and life-saving. But there is an understandable degree of public anxiety and concern.

“The crucial reassurance is that not just anyone will be able to sign up to this trial. They will go through extensive assessment by expert clinicians locally that will be reviewed nationally, and every young person would need to assent.
“They’re not old enough to consent. They would need to assent, and they would <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/CFzK4/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/17/children-cannot-consent-puberty-blocker-trial-wes-streeting/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">need the consent of parents.

“And so there are lots of checks, balances, oversights and safeguards and constant monitoring in a way that disgracefully wasn’t there before. That’s what gives me the confidence and assurance of knowing this trial is safe.

“There is a debate about whether this is the right thing to do. I understand that, and there’s one thing we’ve learnt about this particular area of policy is that we shouldn’t silence, debate, dissent, disagreement.

“So we’ll continue to have that, and we’ll continue to be subject to scrutiny and challenge.”

Mr Streeting admitted that the children who will be involved in the trial are “very young” and that the drugs are “very strong”.

But he claimed he had tried to take the “politics out of what has been an extremely <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/CFzK4/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/25/nhs-puberty-blockers-trial-repeat-tavistock-whistleblowers/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">difficult and sensitive issue”.

Despite the research going ahead, the Health Secretary added: “I think there are still big questions about how we ever ended up in this situation where these sorts of drugs were being routinely prescribed with and we’re continuing to get into that and looking.
“There’ll be another study looking at what’s happened to that cohort of young people over time.”'

But it needs repeating that these are the same drugs that are only given for short periods of time to children with precocious puberty BECAUSE of the side effects. They do know they are not safe and my suspicion now is that whilst Cass got them stopped she will be thrown under the bus at the end of this for suggesting a trial in the first place. Which most people would think could never happen due to the ethics, as we already know the harms.

Children who say they really want to change sex must be given dangerous drugs or they'll kill themselves.

Prisoners who say they really want to go to women's prison must be put in with women or they'll kill themselves.

Men who really want to use women's spaces must be given access or they'll kill themselves.

How many of these men who were denied access to women's prisons have killed themselves then?

In Scotland I know of two. Andrew Burns and the one upthread.

Why is this the fault and responsibility of women prisoners and not prison staff?

In fact, correcting myself, the FAI of Burns (known as 'Tiffany Scott' when he wasnt calling himself Obi Wan Kenobi) appears to have quietly slipped away.

Cause of death is shown as 'opiate intoxication' and 'sharp force injuries to abdomen' in SPS FOI, but as far as I can find the FAI never concluded.

Scott was convicted of stalking a 13 year old girl, amongst other offences.

Another FOI in December 2024 said the FAI was ongoing.

(Sorry, tangent).

Quite. Other men have also committed suicide in prison. They aren’t women prisoners responsibility either.

I would like to know whether the instances of suicide in prison of trans individuals is disproportionate to their number?

Your choices should not impose any obligations on me or other women!!

this man is giving me the rage. I think his argument here is utterly evil.

interesting ...

You would need to control for other mental health and neurodevelopmental issues.

Lets Go!!

Keira Bell

WE HAVE INITIATED JR PROCEEDINGS

The Ethics Committee were misled and told ‘there was no data at present on the cognitive impacts of puberty blockers’. Those implementing the trial admit that they are unsure if the trial will help these children.

DESPITE:
❌Misleading info on the basis
❌Poor study design
❌The issue of consent
❌Drug effects and likely long-term outcome
❌Over 140k signatures in support of stopping this trial

They have failed to stop it. We’ll be seeing this in court.

https://x.com/KBtheYoungOG/status/2019682477510406316

First press coverage

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/330c6ebea12e9549

Kerala Bell has been through so much. She's amazing. I could weep. I wish she'd never fallen victim to these ghouls.

Stop the Streeting Trial on children.

This is good news. Now they won't be able to hide behind the cloak of "confidentiality" the NHS throws round the dubious adults pushing this grim experimentation on children. All out in the open - and hopefully outing some of the senior NHS people pushing this so relentlessly.

'Kiera'! Sorry.

Well done, Keira!

Keira!? Really? 😬Sorry again. That one was on me

I'm really confused about Cass's position on this. She proposed a PB trial in May 2023. So she was behind it being on the table.

Meeting of the National Children and Young People’s Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board Notes of the meeting held on 10 May 2023 4-5.30pm Microsoft Teams Meeting

Keira Bell is a total heroine of mine. Thank you so much for keeping going with this Keira, if you ever read this.

Sorry that's really blurry and I don't know how to link the pdf!

Maybe the PP means she stopped general prescription of puberty blockers to minors rather than the trial?

Ah that makes sense. Thanks.

I still think it is a bit cart before the horse of Cass to be pushing for a PB trial a year before the review was published...