10 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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20 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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22 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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24 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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31 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'.

Society

3 d. ago Spencer Matthews' three children surprise him at the airport as he jets back to the UK after completing gruelling Antarctica challenge to become a three time Guinness World Record holder

Spencer Matthews looked happier than ever as he was reunited with his children at the airport in London on Sunday after becoming a three time Guinness World Record holder.

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5 d. ago 5ft singing nutcracker statue stolen from funeral director's as cops make arrest

Proprietor Luke Allum explained the nutcracker brings happiness to local children and was switched on around 3pm for pupils finishing their day.

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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 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 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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3 w. ago ‘They all think Keir is done’: how push to protect Starmer’s job backfired spectacularly

Botched briefing operation was proof to many that PM is leading an ineffectual No 10. How did it go so wrong?If there’s one thing the Labour party can agree on this week, it is that efforts by Keir Starmer’s allies to shore up his position backfired spectacularly.By briefing journalists that he would face down any challenge and accusing Wes Streeting of leading an advanced plot to overthrow him, figures around the prime minister managed only to expose the weakness of his position. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Kemi Badenoch grills Keir Starmer over 'toxic culture' in Downing Street after Wes Streeting denies plot to oust PM: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: Follow the latest from the Commons as Keir Starmer faces off against Kemi Badenoch as Labour frontbencher Wes Streeting denies a plot to topple the Prime Minister.

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4 w. ago Watch live: Keir Starmer faces PMQs as Wes Streeting denies leadership coup rumours

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer faces Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (12 November).

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