Children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS England has confirmed.
The government said it welcomed the “landmark decision”, adding it would help ensure care is based on evidence and is in the “best interests of the child”.
The NHS England policy document, published on Tuesday, said: “We have concluded that there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of (puberty blockers) to make the treatment routinely available at this time.”
I’m kinda with the UK in that I’m not convinced we have solid evidence of the best course of action. This isn’t something we can know the answers to without objective, disinterested study and we need to support more research rather than finding whatever data matches our internal biases.