Sex Matters asks Wes Streeting to send puberty-blocker trial back to Research Ethics Committee

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Send the puberty-blocker trial back to the research ethics committee, Wes! - Sex Matters

This letter surely puts beyond any doubt that the puberty trail should not be going ahead.

Extract from Sex Matters letter:

"That children, parents and clinicians may have expectations for transition which are not consistent with the law, or with school rules and policies was an eminently foreseeable risk. This risk has now materialised in the High Court judgment and the KCSIE update. It is likely that young people involved in the study, and any schools that accommodate them, will be breaking the law if they refuse to follow (or become confused about) school rules that relate to their sex."

"The study, which was clearly engaging in a legally complex area, should have been assessed by reference to legal advice on whether its conception of “social transition” was consistent with the UK’s legislative framework, including consideration of whether it would put schools under pressure to breach safeguarding and the Equality Act. We hope you will now report this as a serious breach and ask the REC to reconsider whether legal advice would be helpful to them in deciding if the study should continue. "

Those are good points but I can't see it making any difference. Thank the lord someone in Northern Ireland has some reservations.

@BettyBooperyou made a good point (I thought) about attendance of members of the ethics committee that have ethical approval to the Streeting Trial.

1. Ethics committee met 3 times times - over Zoom 2) First meeting attended by NINE; second by FIVE; third by THREE people, where final approval agreed 3) Only one person was present at all meetings - the 'Lead Pharmacist in Clinical Trials'

@ArabellaSaurus
I commented on a post of yours:

Need for Meaningful Inclusion of Lived Experience: The statement calls for the integration of transgender adolescents, their families, and community stakeholders in the design and governance of any research that directly affects them. Patient‑reported outcomes and lived experience must be central to ethical and effective study design.

Integration of...community stakeholders. ...lived experience... What are community stakeholders in this context? Do they mean the schools that the children being experimented upon go to? Are they expecting the schools to participate in the experiment? What if the child goes to a school that takes safeguarding seriously and does not afirm delusion, nor allow children to use the opposite-sex facilities or let boys compete in girls' competitions (rare, but, I hope, do exist).
This has echoes of trans-IDing men using unconsenting women in their fetishes.

What were you quoting from?

Both points seem very relevant to this mew endeavour from Sex Matters.