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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’.

Evening Standard

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.

Evening Standard

Puberty blockers to be tested on hundreds of children as two major clinical studies launch

Plans for a puberty blockers trial were announced in 2024 following the publication of the Cass Review.

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Health Secretary wants puberty blocker trials to start ‘as soon as possible’

No patients have yet been recruited to the trial while ethical and regulatory approval is awaited

The Independent UK

Streeting keen to get puberty blocker trial up and running as soon as possible

Plans were announced in 2024 but a trial is still awaiting ethical and regulatory approval.

Evening Standard

Negative media attention 'making it hard to recruit staff' to gender identity clinics

NEGATIVE media attention has made it difficult for Scotland’s gender identity healthcare services to retain and recruit staff, a report has said.

The National (Scotland)

£10m funding for children’s gender research including NHS puberty blocker trial

Children will be recruited to a trial with the agreement of their parents and NHS gender services.

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Scottish Labour leadership defeated on gender motion at conference

Scottish Labour’s leadership has suffered a defeat at their party conference after delegates rejected calls to impose “single-sex spaces ……

The National (Scotland)

Cass Review of trans care 'transgresses medical law and policy', US experts claim

THE Cass Review into transgender care for young people “transgresses medical law, policy, and practice”, US experts have claimed ...

The National (Scotland)

Blocked Progress or Necessary Caution? The UK's Puberty Blockers Ban Stirs Fierce Controversy

The UK bans puberty blockers for transgender youth due to safety concerns, despite criticism from medical and LGBT+ groups.

International Business Times UK

GPs halting transgender patients’ hormone treatment or refusing prescriptions, investigation reveals

Investigation: GPs cite lack of expertise or funding as key factors in withdrawals of trans patients’ prescriptions. Billie Gay Jackson and Holly Bancroft report

The Independent UK

UK And Sweden Limit Access To Transgender Youth Treatments

Justice Alito's concerns about puberty blockers and hormone treatments for transgender youth, UK's policy changes, and US medical associations' support for...

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First registered private gender clinic for young people in England ‘outstanding’

Gender Plus was set up and is run by staff who previously worked at the now-shut NHS Gender Identity Development Service (Gids).

The Independent UK

How Scientific American's Departing Editor Helped Degrade Science

When magazines like Scientific American are run by ideologues producing biased dreck, it only makes it more difficult to defend the institution of science itself.

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Charities should follow Cass Review recommendations, says watchdog

There are lessons for other charities working with gender-questioning young people, the chairman of the Charity Commission said.

The National (Scotland)

Scotland to move to 'regional model' of gender identity healthcare for under-18s

THE NHS in Scotland is set to follow England in moving to a "regional model" of providing gender identity healthcare for under-18s.

The National (Scotland)

Questions loom over direction Labour will take on transgender rights

LGBTQ+ people from around the country breathed a sigh of relief seeing that the Conservatives had finally been knocked out of power – but the…

The National (Scotland)

Doctors’ union calls for Cass Review implementation to be paused amid ‘critique’

THE doctors’ union has called for the implementation of the Cass Review to be paused while it carries out a “critique” of the report’s…

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Scottish Government responds to recommendations from Cass Review by clinical team

THE Scottish Government has published its response to the recommendation made by an independent team regarding how the Cass Review can be applied to…

The National (Scotland)

John Swinney responds as Yale experts warn of 'serious flaws' in Cass Review

JOHN Swinney has responded after scientific analysis from a top US university concluded that the Cass Review into trans healthcare in the UK…

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Cass Review 'obscures key findings' and 'misrepresents data', finds Yale Law School

THE Cass Review “obscures key findings, misrepresents its own data, and is rife with misapplications of the scientific method”, according to a…

The Independent UK

What are Labour and the Conservative positions on transgender rights ahead of the 2024 general election?

Both Labour and the Conservatives have laid out their plans for gender law after July 4, with some key differences

Reason

Jesse Singal: Should Kids Medically Transition?

Jesse Singal questions the science of "gender-affirming care."

Evening Standard

OPINION - After the Cass Review, we must not push British trans youth into the internet's Wild West

Earlier this year, I was leafing through a book shop and happened upon a new memoir by the writer Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name. It ticked many of my boxes. Sante lived through Seventies and Eighties New York, my favourite place and time for non-fiction literature. She…

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