UK media - Puberty blockers

I was at a talk in London recently when I noticed a man waiting to meet me. He was an inner-city GP, he said, and there was a group that wished to speak to me — had I heard of CAN-SG

It wasn’t easy for Hannah Barnes to get her book published. As the investigations producer for Newsnight and a long-term analytical and documentary journalist,

Anybody reading the account in The Sunday Times today of the Newsnight journalist Hannah Barnes’s thorough investigation of the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids), based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London, will be struck by two things

More than 1,000 children were referred for puberty blockers at an experimental gender clinic where concerns were ignored to preserve a “gold dust” NHS contract,

Dr Anna Hutchinson, a senior clinical psychologist at Gids and part of the senior team, joined the clinic at the start of 2013 with significant experience from

The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in London will close later this year after being slammed in a report amid scrutiny

’I have no trust in the medical services available when it comes to my child’s mental health,” says one father, whose daughter identifies as transgender. “It is

Staff at Scotland’s only gender clinic for children have tried to blow the whistle on the service using official patient safety procedures.Red flags have formal

Sandyford accused of setting young patients off on ‘a medical pathway’, after NHS report into referrals for drug treatment

World Professional Association for Transgender Health says teenagers should be able to access sex change surgery without parents’ support

Doctors told not to encourage young people to change their names and pronouns

NHS proposals would see local authorities alerted when young people obtain hormone therapies on the private market

Teenagers with gender dysphoria are directed to websites where they can illegally buy hormones — no questions asked

The psychiatrist who blew the whistle on children’s gender services at the Tavistock clinic has called for the equivalent clinic in Scotland to close immediatel

A controversial NHS clinic that led the way in prescribing puberty blockers to children who questioned their gender is being shut down. The gender identity deve

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss say drugs could be restricted amid concerns that youngsters are being ‘rushed’ into changing gender

REUTERSThe Tavistock failed to collect data on puberty blockers for those under 16, refused to follow up the effects of its treatments and paid virtually no a

Dr Michael Webberley, who spent 34 years working for the NHS, provided puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones via GenderGP, an online gender clinic which he ran with his wife Helen

Activists take case to High Court, which if won could ‘dismantle safeguards’ in place regarding prescription of puberty blockers to children

Britain, amongst other counties, has began debating the rights and wrongs of pumping powerful puberty blockers into young bodies, including some catastrophic injuries.

A doctor from Abergavenny who ran an online clinic for transgender children failed to provide some follow-up care, a medical tribunal has found.

Scotland must hold its own inquiry into the issue of children being given gender hormone treatment, GPs have said.Sajid Javid, the UK health secretary, told

GPs in the UK will be paid £178 for prescribing cross-sex hormone therapy and £91 for providing annual health checks to transgender patients, in the first programme of its kind for the country.

Trans people will be able to access healthcare and seek support to assist with their transition far more quickly as part of a £9 million overhaul to cut waitin

Keira Bell, a woman who regrets changing her gender aged 16, is seeking permission to overturn a Court of Appeal ruling allowing an NHS gender clinic to give children hormone drugs.

A whistleblower who claims she was “vilified” by an NHS gender identity clinic after raising concerns about the safety of children undergoing treatment has been

Child safeguarding expert awarded £20,000 after bringing claim against Tavistock and Portman trust

An employment tribunal rules in favour of a staff member who says bosses treated her unfavourably.

A court ruling that a 16-year-old transgender girl does not require court permission to access hormone blockers will “bring comfort” to other young trans people in Northern Ireland, a solicitor has said. In a judgment handed down in May and published earlier this month, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan sa

A doctor who ran an unlicensed online gender identity clinic treating children as young as 12 is accused of failing to provide good clinical care to three patients, a tribunal was told.Helen Webberley

‘Don’t pass judgement until you’ve spoken to these people who are begging us - because you will be converted’

Dr Matt Bristow said he feared that the Tavistock and Portman NHS trust was ignoring the possibility that boys and girls who told clinicians they wanted to change their sex might simply be homosexual.

A gay psychologist who worked at the NHS’s only gender transition clinic for children spoke of his fears that the clinic was running “conversion therapy for gay kids”.Dr Matt Bristow said he feared

Sonia Appleby, 62, claims her bosses’ actions left her unable to fulfil her role as a Named Professional for Safeguarding Children at Tavistock and Portman NHS Centre.

The group will assess the prescription of puberty blockers for under-16s, NHS England says.

A warning over the health impacts of giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to young people struggling with gender identity has prompted a call for a review of their use in Scotland.The

A number of reports have raised concerns about the country’s only NHS gender clinic for young people.

Scotland’s biggest health board has been accused of misleading young transgender patients and their families over the potential effects of puberty- suppressing drugs.Newly-released documents show that

GenderGP doctor tells reporters posing as parents of 12-year-old that he may be able to obtain drugs after appointments with counsellor

Online healthcare clinic uses loophole to flout NHS rules and prescribe sex change drugs to under 16s without parental consent

Puberty blockers stunted the height and impaired the bone mass density of children wishing to change gender, researchers have found.The study followed 44 children, aged 12-15, who had treatment for

Helen Webberley, of Abergavenny, said she will go against the ruling to offer children the ‘experimental’ treatment

Dr David Bell wrote an internal report in 2018, raising the concerns brought to him by colleagues about the way the Gender Identity Development Service was treating patients.

GenderCare accepts patients from 18 years old and charges up to £300 for a first appointment

The shocking evidence that convinced a High Court judge to effectively ban an NHS gender clinic from giving puberty-blocking drugs to children can be revealed for the first time today.

The distribution of drugs that block puberty in children planning to transition to another sex looks set to be reviewed.Jeane Freeman, the health secretary, said that the Scottish government would

A thought experiment . . . Specialists treating a rare disorder observe a profound change in their patient base. Historically it is 90 per cent male until a recent sudden surge in female referrals who

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Children will continue to receive puberty-blocking drugs in Scotland despite English courts ruling that under-16s are too immature to decide to change their gender.Calls have been made for the

The court was correct to halt a disturbing trend among clinicians to assume those as young as 10 were fit to make life-altering decisions about gender identity

A private clinic set up by a suspended GP has vowed to keep prescribing puberty blockers to children despite a High Court ruling that under 16s are unlikely to be able to fully consent to the

Children younger than 16 are unlikely to be able to give informed consent, three judges rule.

Tavistock and Portman trust says puberty blockers are rarely used in treating children under 13

Keira Bell, a 23-year-old woman who began taking puberty blockers when she was 16 before ‘detransitioning’, brought legal action against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.

Transgender clinics could face legal blocks on prescribing puberty-blocking drugs to children aged 16 and under after a landmark judgment this week.If Keira Bell, 23, wins her case on Tuesday, doctors

Emily Wheater and Ellen Pasternack say the gender change lobby is failing young people who change their mind…

A pharmacy that arranged home deliveries of life-changing medication for transgender children which bypassed NHS safeguards has been found to have “system-wide failures” by its regulator.Clear Chemist

The prescriptions for puberty blockers were from GenderGP, founded by Helen Webberley, who was fined in 2018 for running an unlicensed transgender clinic from her home in Wales.