Britain is to ban indefinitely the use of puberty blockers for young people under 18 with gender dysphoria, except in clinical trials, the government said on Wednesday, making permanent a set of temporary restrictions put in place earlier this year. Announcing the decision, Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said he was acting after having received advice from medical experts, who concluded that there was an unacceptable safety risk in prescribing puberty blockers without further...

The ban on giving puberty blockers to under-18s questioning their gender identify is to be made permanent, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has announced. Streeting told MPs he was making the temporary ban introduced in May indefinite across the UK, following a consultation and advice from the Commission on Human Medicines - calling the way the drugs had been used a "scandal". The expert group said prescribing the drugs to children for gender dysphoria was an "unacceptable safety risk".

The United Kingdom indefinitely banned puberty blockers for children after warnings about an “unacceptable safety risk” on Wednesday.  Wes Streeting, the U.K.’s secretary of state for Health and Social Care, announced the ban would affect everyone younger than 18.   “We need to act with caution and care when it comes to this vulnerable group of young people, and follow the expert advice,” Streeting said.  The declaration from the British...

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