11 h. ago Wes Streeting facing fresh calls to scrap puberty blockers trial as it emerges the results will be based on survey of children's happiness

The controversial trial of puberty blockers will be judged by how happy children taking the drugs say they are, prompting fresh calls for it to be scrapped.

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21 h. ago Campaigners in legal effort to suspend trial of puberty blockers in England

Letters arguing research could harm participating children sent to medical regulators, health secretary and NHSCampaigners have began a legal process intended to suspend a clinical trial of puberty blockers on the grounds that the research could prove harmful to the children taking part.The study was commissioned in response to last year’s Cass review of gender identity services which found that gender medicine was an “area of remarkably weak evidence” and “built on shaky foundations”. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Campaigners send legal letter calling for puberty blocker trial to be stopped

Researchers expect to see the first patients available for recruitment in the new year, with results expected in around four years.

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25 h. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Do you support Wes Streeting's puberty blockers trial on children?

The NHS-backed experiment was branded 'grotesque' by the Tories , with Conservative Equalities spokesperson Claire Coutinho suggesting it was 'chemical castration'.

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33 h. ago CLAIRE COUTINHO: The puberty blocker trial is nothing less than the state sanctioned chemical castration of children

The Labour Government, with Streeting's blessing, is pursuing a dystopian experiment to test puberty-blockers on healthy children who think they were 'born in the wrong body'.

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1 week ago SARAH VINE: Experimenting on children with puberty blockers is wrong and I cannot understand why Wes Streeting has not put a stop to it

The idea that the NHS and that taxpayers are going to be funding a study, which is effectively experimenting on children, is just horrible and I don't understand why it's happening.

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1 week ago Male model David Gandy roasts Peppa Pig's father Daddy Pig for promoting a 'bad narrative' about men

David Gandy, who shares two daughters with his barrister partner Stephanie Mednoros, argued the hugely popular kid's television programme sets a bad example to children about gender roles.

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2 w. ago NHS's £10.7million puberty blocker trial 'will ask children if they identify as two spirit'

It states its aims as evaluating the risks and benefits of giving puberty blockers to children who identify as transgender and have parental consent.

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2 w. ago NHS must be blocked from running a puberty blocker medical experiment on kids, demands Kemi Badenoch

WES Streeting must block the NHS running a puberty blocker medical experiment on kids, Kemi Badenoch demanded last night. The Tory leader slammed the Health Secretary for refusing to halt a clinical trial she warned would “harm” children. Ms Badenoch claimed the health service study is “activist ideology masquerading as research”. She said that “vulnerable”...

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2 w. ago Kemi blasts Streeting for taking trans argument 'back to square one' with puberty blockers experiment on children

The Conservative leader has written to the Health Secretary calling on him to halt the trial before 'more damage is done' as 'no child is born in the wrong body'.

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2 w. ago Kemi Badenoch calls on Wes Streeting to stop puberty blocker trial

The Health Secretary has said the trial will ‘provide better evidence for how the NHS can support and treat young people with gender incongruence’.

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2 w. ago Teenagers, on top of everything else, are bombarded with confusing gender messages. I say enough

The new trial of puberty blockers should be halted immediately, says Jenny Lindsay

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2 w. ago It's child abuse to test puberty blockers on children. Only in a trans fantasy world of pink unicorns could it EVER make sense: SARAH VINE

Just when you think woke dogma has returned to some semblance of sanity, along comes something to remind us that the fanatics are still very much in charge, or at least they would like to be.

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2 w. ago MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Puberty blocker trial turns children into crash

Labour's Health Secretary, Wes Streeting said a planned clinical trial by NHS England would go ahead. The ban would then be reviewed in 2027 in the light of any new evidence that emerged.

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2 w. ago Texas A&M committee rules professor's firing over gender identity lesson was unjustified

A Texas A&M committee agreed the university was wrong to fire a professor earlier this year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender identity

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2 w. ago Scores of children to get puberty blockers on NHS in UK from 2026

The first patients are expected to be available for recruitment in the new year, with researchers hopeful that more than 200 children could eventually join the study

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2 w. ago Two UK clinical trials to assess impact of puberty blockers in young people

Multi-year studies announced after Cass review found ‘insufficient evidence’ about effects on children with gender dysphoriaTwo studies to investigate the impact of puberty blockers in young people with gender incongruence have been announced by researchers in the UK after an expert view said gender medicine was “built on shaky foundations”.Puberty blockers were originally used to treat early onset puberty in children but have also been used off-label in children with gender dysphoria or incongruence. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Hundreds of children to be jabbed with puberty blockers in NHS

Approximately 250 young people are expected to participate in the study which researchers anticipate will clarify whether suppressing puberty affects brain development

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2 w. ago Children with gender dysphoria ‘could remain on puberty blockers after trial’

Plans for a puberty blockers trial were announced in 2024 following the publication of the Cass Review.

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3 w. ago New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people

Critics warn move could have devastating impact on lives and wellbeing of those affectedNew Zealand has announced it is banning new prescriptions of puberty-blocking drugs for young transgender people, in a move that critics warned could worsen the mental health of those affected.The step comes amid growing global debate about the number of adolescents seeking to change gender, dividing those concerned about hastiness in prescribing such medications and those worried about access to remedies they deem lifesaving. Continue reading...

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