Tag: Puberty Blockers
Trans youth in England and Wales are reportedly taking extreme measures—including starving themselves—to prevent the physical changes of puberty after the UK government banned puberty blockers, a GP in South Wales has claimed.
The ban on puberty blocker prescriptions, introduced after the Cass Review in April 2024, has left trans...
A new YouGov poll, published on Tuesday (11 February), has highlighted a significant rise in anti-trans sentiment across the UK, with even traditionally progressive groups, such as women and young people, showing growing scepticism towards trans rights.
In 2022, 44% of women supported legal gender changes, but by December 2024,...
Queensland's government has announced an immediate ban on hormone treatments for new patients under 18 through the public health system, pending an independent external review of the evidence supporting puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
Health Minister Tim Nicholls stated that the review would involve medical experts, young people with lived...
Adam Price, the former leader of Plaid Cymru, a Welsh nationalist party advocating for independence and social justice, has criticised the Welsh government’s decision to halt the provision of puberty blockers for trans youth, calling it “unlawful”.
In 2024, NHS Wales suspended access to puberty blockers for young transgender individuals,...
The Queensland government has backtracked after Health Minister Tim Nicholls initially confirmed plans to consider expanding the state’s Children’s Gender Service.
Last week, The Courier-Mail reported that Nicholls announced a steering committee would oversee the implementation of all 25 recommendations from an independent review into the Queensland Children’s Gender Service.
The...
Two Canadian LGBTQ+ advocacy organisations have initiated a legal challenge seeking to overturn Alberta's recently passed law that restricts transgender healthcare for minors. The case, launched Monday, claims the law violates the rights of transgender youth.
The legislation, Alberta’s Bill 26, became law last week. It prohibits sex reassignment surgeries...
Labour’s spokesperson for Rainbow Issues, Shanan Halbert, stands firm on puberty blocker access.
New Zealand has now had a year of the coalition government, and to mark the anniversary, we heard some deliberately misleading murmurs from ACT and Winston Peters about access to puberty blockers. This kind of rhetoric is...
Eli Luke Michel ‘thinks of the children’ and discusses the medication subscribed to trans kids entering puberty.
“Won’t somebody please think of the children?!” It’s a popular line in the animated sitcom The Simpsons whenever the town is thrown into chaos, but it's also pertinent to the issue of transgender children having...
