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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Geraldine McKelvie

Wes Streeting calls for ‘cross-party consensus’ on gender identity ahead of puberty blocker trial

Kemi Badenoch and Wes Streeting
Wes Streeting’s intervention comes after Kemi Badenoch and Stuart Andrew said NHS England was supporting a clinical trial involving drugs which halted natural puberty. Photograph: Jeff Overs/PA

The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has called on the Conservatives to maintain the cross-party consensus on gender identity services built before the last election in a letter to Kemi Badenoch.

Streeting wrote to opposition leader on Friday urging her to “take the heat and the ideology” out of debate amid controversy over a puberty blocker trial for children.

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