The government has announced that puberty blockers are to be banned indefinitely in the UK for under-18s after an expert review by the Commission on Human Medicines warned that they posed an “unacceptable safety risk”.
Clearly this is the right, evidence-led decision. But many lives have already been blighted, some irreversibly – the price of untested dogma silencing or punishing those with bona fide medical concerns for far too long.
The Cass Report, published in April 2024, was the most thoroughgoing assessment ever undertaken of the ‘transgender care’ provided by the NHS-funded (and now closed) Tavistock Clinic.
Devastatingly, the team (led by eminent paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass) concluded there was no robust evidence to support the ‘affirmative’ treatment thousands of children and young people had received, including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
The exposure of this scandal was fought for long and hard by many who suffered, personally and professionally, for their commitment to medical ethics, evidence-led science and the safeguarding of children. Here’s to them all.
Earlier this year, the FSU was honoured to bring together an expert panel, including Tavistock whistleblowers Sue Evans – who first raised concerns as long ago as 2005 – and Dr David Bell, to discuss the shocking story of how children’s care was sacrificed to gender ideology.
A video of the event is available on our YouTube channel (here). We have also just released an audio version of the event via our ‘Unfiltered Conversations’ podcast series (here).
