Decades of data support the use and safety of puberty-pausing medications, which give transgender adolescents and their families time to weigh important medical decisions
Puberty blockers help temporarily suppress puberty. Transgender and gender-diverse children might use these to stop certain changes to their bodies.
But while treating gender incongruence with puberty blockers is a relatively recent application, these drugs have been used onchildrensince the 1980s for slowing down puberty if it happens too early or too quickly. Currently, there's sufficient evidence to show the drugs are safe and well-tolera...
Doctors can decide if children are able to consent to puberty blockers, say judgesIt is for doctors to decide whether a child under 16 can give informed consent to treatment with puberty blockers, the Court of Appeal has ruled.1Clare Dyer...
At the time of the move, there were fewer than 100 children on puberty blockers, who will continue their treatment at Leeds and University College London Hospital. The NHS says children referred to one of the new clinics will be seen by a team, who will carry out a detailed assessment ...
The hormones you get *before birth* and grow up with, go through puberty with, and finally emerge in your mid 20s being done with… those change you. And even if you get new ones later on, that doesn’t undo the changes to your brain chemistry that have been layered on and built ...
Children under 16 cannot consent to the use of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria unless they can understand the immediate and long term consequences of the treatment, which is unlikely, the High Court in London has ruled.1 Even for over 16s, clinicians might well want to seek court ...