The Cass Review confirmed what we have always known; it is mostly young people who will grow up to be lesbian, gay or bisexual who are given puberty blockers.
It is a medical scandal that being same sex attracted has become a ‘condition to be cured’ with powerful experimental drugs.
So we welcome the news that the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, MP, is taking an evidence-based approach to medication, which is so consequential, and has signalled his intention to extend the temporary ban on the prescribing of puberty blockers by private clinics.
We will continue to work with parents, detransitioners and young LGB people to ensure that all children, including those distressed about their gender, receive the evidence based care and support they need. We will continue to speak up for young same-sex attracted people to protect them from exploitation by, often unregulated, profit-driven private online clinics, both here and abroad.
Finally, we believe that it is reprehensible to seek to alarm vulnerable young people, by suggesting that this ban will in some way cause them harm. Any organisation promoting such disinformation does not have the best interests of children at heart.