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UK government bans private puberty blocker prescriptions for trans youth (www.thepinknews.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Rushed through last minute before parliament is dissolved using emergency powers.

Should've been debated in the commons at least.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No new patients under the age of 18 in England, Wales and Scotland will be given hormones to suppress puberty if they are experiencing gender dysphoria

Puberty blockers sure are funny old things, somehow they're safe to prescribe to cis kids, but when prescribed to trans kids they suddenly become dangerous. I'm sure this is a purely evidence based policy. It must be. Wes Streeting has already endorsed it and, as people on here keep saying, Labour are the trans-friendly™ option. They wouldn't just throw trans kids under the bus.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Transkids get access to these drugs just as easily as ciskids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, not if they're banned as per the OP, surely? Not sure what you mean here?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They aren't banned for use as a treatment for precocious puberty, which presumably is something anyone can suffer from trans or otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah but they're banned for use for kids who suffer from gender dysphoria, which is a condition that by definition only trans kids have, so it's absolutely restricting access to them exclusively for trans kids, and to rub salt in on the wound, the use of what the government calls "dangerous" (and TERFs who dictate policy and the media line call "experimental" and "untested" and fearmonger about non-existent negative side effects) will continue on cis kids, because their lives and their struggles are seen as worth more than the trans kids', as was already evident to trans folks, with how the fearmongering about hypothetical harm to >1% of trans people who detransition conveniently forgets about those 99% who would - and often already do today - suffer very real harm from treatment withheld.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They aren't banned for kids who suffer from dysphoria. They are banned from being used as a treatment for dysphoria. Important difference.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is a pointless difference in practice, because kids who suffer from gender dysphoria would use these meds for treatment of said dysphoria and do in the rest of the world that follows the expert guidance from WPATH, and now they can't, and the kids will suffer as a result. But hey at least the transes will be mad innit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It is not a pointless difference. The use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists have been banned in the UK for the treatment of gender dysphoria. They are of course still available for treating precocious puberty, regardless of how anyone identifies.