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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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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3 d. ago Wes Streeting has sanctioned a grotesque experiment in puberty

I use the word 'trial' but, let's be honest, this is an experiment. A state-sanctioned exercise which, no matter how it is dressed up, risks causing profound and lifelong harm.

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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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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 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 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 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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