<p>A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom">British</a> high court on Monday upheld Britain&#8217;s ban on puberty blockers, hormonal drugs frequently given to pubescent children who express discomfort with their biological gender.</p>
<p>The judge noted puberty blockers were found to have “very substantial risks and very narrow benefits” by the Cass review, the landmark <a href="https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> commissioned by England&#8217;s National Health Service (NHS).</p>
<p>Transgender medical interventions on children are based on “remarkably weak evidence,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse,” Justice Beverley Lang said in her ruling.</p>
<p>Last summer, the NHS issued an emergency ban on puberty blockers after the Cass review recommended halting the powerful drugs due to their effects on brain development and bone health.</p>
<p>“Outside of a research setting, puberty-suppressing hormones should not be routinely commissioned for children and adolescents,” the NHS said at the time.</p>
<p>A group called TransActual, along with an unnamed youth, sued over the government&#8217;s decision, <a href="https://transactual.org.uk/blog/2024/03/12/transactual-statement-on-nhs-englands-decision-to-stop-commissioning-puberty-blockers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> it a &#8220;cruel new element of the war on trans youth.&#8221;</p>
<p>With Monday&#8217;s decision, however, the ban will remain in place.</p>
<p>“Children’s healthcare must be evidence-led,” said Health Secretary Wes Streeting, welcoming the ruling. “We must therefore act cautiously and with care when it comes to this vulnerable group of young people.”</p>
<p>However, Streeting added that he is setting up a clinical trial to establish the evidence on puberty blockers.</p>
<p class="sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe">&#8220;I want trans people in our country to feel safe, accepted, and able to live with freedom and dignity,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075">affect</a> bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones, which can be estrogen or testosterone can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cause</a> infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.</p>
<p>The Cass review also warned that children who are referred to gender services come with high rates of abuse and neglect, including sexual abuse and parental substance abuse.</p>
<p>England and several other European countries, such as Finland and Sweden, have pumped the brakes on transgender medical interventions for children.</p>
<p>In April, the Tavistock clinic, England’s only youth gender identity clinic, officially closed its doors after being dogged by controversy for years.</p>
<p>The clinic, the biggest in the world, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2024/03/inside-the-collapse-of-the-tavistock-centre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> thousands of children for puberty blockers. In its last years, Tavistock began to see an increasing flood of young girls with gender-related distress asking for drugs despite having other mental issues like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and histories of abuse.</p>
<p>At least 25 U.S. states have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nebraska-supreme-court-upholds-bans-on-abortion-transgender-surgeries-for-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> restrictions on transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for minors.</p>

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