Gender-distressed children
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Former UUP leader who backed conversion therapy ban says Alliance proposals go ‘significantly beyond’ original pledge
David Thompson for the News Letter referred to Sex Matters’ warning that the weak evidence underpinning the UK Conversion Practices Bill is no...
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Health Secretary ‘uneasy’ over puberty blockers experiment on kids as MPs raise alarm over lack of support available to patients who detransition
“Mr Murray should differentiate himself from his predecessor Wes Streeting by listening to his conscience... He needs to call a halt to what... - Helen Joyce
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Labour claims of 75,000 conversion therapy victims ‘remarkably weak’
Daniel Martin for The Telegraph quoted analysis by Sex Matters showing that the cases presented by LGBT charity Galop to back its claim...
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Parents ‘risk jail’ if they try to talk child out of trans treatment
“Opponents of the bill have long warned the new law could criminalise doctors, teachers and parents for having conversations with children about whether... - Maya Forstater
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Puberty blockers ‘at risk of being treated like sweeties’
“There is no evidence to support Baroness Cass’s claim that the trial would reduce children accessing unregulated drugs.” - Maya Forstater
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Girls as young as 11 set to be handed puberty blockers
“The MHRA’s mission is supposedly to ‘put patients first’ in everything it does, and yet it is signing off on a trial that... - Helen Joyce
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Controversial NHS transgender teens puberty blocker trial given green light despite court challenge
“It appears that gender ideology has broken yet another institution.” - Helen Joyce
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NHS puberty blocker trial to go ahead for children as young as 11
“It is already clear that puberty blockers are no solution to childhood gender distress, and that they cause unacceptable harm.” - Helen Joyce
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Children as young as 11 to be given puberty blockers in controversial trial as furious campaigners urge courts to completely shut down ‘unethical experiment’
“How can such a young child, who has probably been coached in trans ideology online, possibly consent to such serious harms?” - Helen Joyce
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NHS clinic withdraws cross-sex drugs for 78 children
“It should be obvious that messing with the healthy endocrine system of immature young people is not healthcare and should be stopped immediately.” - Fiona McAnena
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Labour to introduce long-delayed ‘trans-inclusive’ ban on conversion therapy – despite concerns it could criminalise parents and doctors
“The real targets of the proposed ban are parents, teachers, therapists and spiritual advisors who don’t subscribe to trans ideology, and don’t think... - Helen Joyce
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The decision-dodgers
Helen Joyce wrote for The Critic on how the fallout from the puberty-blocker trial shows what happens when politicians outsource policy choices that... - Helen Joyce
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Clinics forced to share data of children who took puberty blockers
“It made no sense to put hundreds more children through the brutality of puberty suppression when no one had followed up the thousands... - Fiona McAnena
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Wes Streeting pauses controversial puberty blockers trial over safety concerns
“We sincerely hope that all organisations involved will heed the MHRA's warning and that the trial will ultimately be cancelled. The right way... - Maya Forstater
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Child puberty blocker trials paused after watchdog concerns
“We are delighted and immensely relieved that the MHRA has pressed pause on the puberty blockers trial. This badly designed experiment would have... - Maya Forstater
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UK human rights group tells Mike Nesbitt to ‘rethink’ Northern Ireland’s involvement in puberty blockers trial
“Once again we are seeing what Dr Cass called ‘diagnostic overshadowing’: all other issues are ignored when someone says ‘trans’. She previously found... - Fiona McAnena
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Call for Nesbitt puberty blocker rethink
“Puberty is the best cure for gender confusion. Before puberty blockers, most children grew out of this. Many grew up to be gay.... - Fiona McAnena
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Ethics? What ethics?
Maya Forstater wrote for The Critic on the puberty-blockers trial, saying that every decision-maker involved has overlooked two crucial facts acknowledged by the... - Maya Forstater
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Wes Streeting faces fresh demand to stop puberty blocker trial as petition hits 100k
“Most people really, truly hate the idea of harming children in the name of ideology. The Government needs to take note - people... - Helen Joyce
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Wes Streeting urged to stop puberty blocker trial for children
“The buck stops with Wes Streeting. He has already expressed doubt about the trial. He cannot pass the buck to an ethics committee... - Maya Forstater
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Wes Streeting faces fresh demand to halt puberty blocker trial – ‘shameful experiment’
“The person with the power and the obligation to demand a rethink is Wes Streeting. Politicians are elected to represent voters, and ministers... - Helen Joyce