NHS England has immediately paused new prescriptions of testosterone or oestrogen to under-18s who question their gender. Finally catching up to the Cass Review in 2024, nearly two years ago…
National Medical Director for Specialised Services at NHS England Professor James Palmer said:
“The NHS has exercised extreme caution when considering starting young people on this treatment. [The Cass Review] had been exceptionally thorough and complex [and] established that the available evidence does not support the continued use of masculinising or feminising hormones…”
A 90-day public consultation (yes, another ‘consultation’) on the new policy and review findings starts today. Some trans activist groups are already calling the decision ‘discriminatory’. Even as the NHS warns it is “not clear” if handing 16-year olds these drugs is at all effective…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”