Western Standard - March 12, 2024


United Kingdom bans puberty blockers ‘in best interests of kids’


Episode Stats

Length

46 seconds

Words per Minute

171.5749

Word Count

134

Sentence Count

1


Summary

Breaking news from NHS England about the removal of puberty blockers from children attending gender identity services. Pupil blockers are used to delay the changes of puberty in transgender youngsters. Currently, they are only prescribed to children attending a gender identity clinic as part of clinical research and are not routinely offered to children at gender identity clinics.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 and let's just bring you a bit of breaking news which may be of interest to to some of you it's
00:00:04.560 about puberty blockers now these are drugs that are used to delay the changes of puberty in
00:00:11.460 transgender youngsters in terms of how they are prescribed by the NHS there has been a lot of
00:00:17.820 controversy over the last few years about this at the moment they are only prescribed to children
00:00:22.920 attending gender identity services as part of clinical research and they are not routinely
00:00:29.760 offered to children at gender identity clinics but they are still offered while the government
00:00:34.680 NHS England has just confirmed that children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers
00:00:40.680 at gender identity clinics this is coming from NHS England just broke in the last few moments