PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial is a return to pre-Cass activism

NHS England has finally released the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial protocol. The reason it’s almost a year late could reasonably be supposed to be because of the impossibility of the…

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Private gender clinics for older teens and young adults

After the Cass Review’s final report, there will be greater NHS oversight of gender-related healthcare for the under 18s. But adolescents and young adults who choose to go privately will…

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Court refuses to treat provision of cross-sex hormones to child over 16 as an exceptional case

[Note: the judge referred to Child Q as ‘he’ throughout. We refer to Child Q as a girl for clarity of understanding]. The second recent case concerning a teenage girl’s…

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