51 h. ago Wes Streeting admits children cannot consent to taking puberty blockers as opposition mounts to controversial medical trial with MPs joining in protest outside Department of Health

The Health Secretary told MPs that participants in the study can only repeat back to doctors what the risks are and need a parent to agree they can be given the powerful drugs.

Society

7 d. ago Wes Streeting admits he is 'deeply uncomfort­able' with NHS trial of puberty

He revealed he has serious concerns about the NHS-backed trial, which will study the effect of banned puberty-blocking drugs on more than 200 gender-­questioning children.

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7 d. ago Wes Streeting says he's 'not comfortable' with puberty blockers trial and claims 'threatening' trans activists have attacked his office three times

The clinical trial is taking place for children as young as ten based on a recommendation by the Cass Review into children's gender care.

Events

7 d. ago Wes Streeting ‘not comfortable’ with puberty blocker clinical trial

The Health Secretary made a ban on puberty blockers indefinite in December last year.

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8 d. 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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8 d. 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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8 d. 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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8 d. 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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8 d. ago Stop Labour's 'grotesque' puberty drug experiment: Top Tory calls trial on 226 children 'chemical castration' as campaigners launch bid to halt it

Campaigners say the testing of the controversial drugs on gender-questioning youngsters is unlawful and unethical, as the Tories branded the NHS-backed experiment as 'grotesque'.

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8 d. ago Stop Labour's 'grotesque' puberty drug experiment: Top Tory calls trial on 220 children's 'chemical castration' as campaigners launch bid to halt it

Campaigners say the testing of the controversial drugs on gender-questioning youngsters is unlawful and unethical, as the Tories branded the NHS-backed experiment as 'grotesque'.

Events

9 d. 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'.

Society

3 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.

Economics

3 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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3 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

Events

3 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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4 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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