UK Bans Puberty Blockers For Children Indefinitely

Government officials in the United Kingdom announced Wednesday that the country would extend its ban on the prescription of puberty blockers for children under 18 indefinitely, citing an “unacceptable safety risk.”

Activists in the American medical establishment still maintain that castrating and mutilating children with drugs and surgeries is the proper way to treat children who claim to be the opposite gender as their biology.

“Every executive that works in the U.S. healthcare industry should be paying very close attention to this important move being made by Left-wing politicians in the U.K. to protect children from the dangers of puberty blockers,” Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project (APP), told The Federalist. “By continuing to provide these dangerous and experimental sex change treatments to minors, you are complicit in the damage.”

“Cease and desist from providing these damaging procedures or face additional future financial damages from class action and malpractice lawsuits,” he added. “Preserve your documents. Justice will be served.”

The U.K.’s government Commission on Human Medicines found a “currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children,” though they did say that the drugs, which were routinely given to children to treat gender dysphoria, will only be available for clinical trial run by the country’s National Health Service.

The ban applies to England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Officials in the U.K. were concerned that Northern Ireland might not support the measure, turning it into a “back door” to get the drugs, but it ultimately joined the ban.

The move comes after the Cass Review, an April report done by pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass, which found that there was “remarkably weak” evidence to support the chemical interventions for children and that using them could “change the trajectory of psychosexual and gender identity development.” She also wrote that puberty blockers are “powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks.”

“Unlike American medical bodies, English authorities have done a serious review of the research and evidence underlying the use of puberty blockers on minors,” Paul Dupont, APP’s communications director, told The Federalist. “That they recommended a permanent ban, despite the far left’s intense lobbying, underlines how horrifically bad these drugs are.”

In May, when the government was run by the Conservative Party, then-Health Secretary Victoria Atkins placed an emergency ban on the drugs. The new left-wing Labour government has doubled down on that ban, with current Health Secretary Wes Streeting signaling in July his plans to permanently ban their use for children.

“Of particular concern to the Commission was whether these children and their families were provided with enough time and information to give their full and informed consent,” Streeting told the House of Commons on Wednesday. He also called the manner in which the drugs were prescribed to children a “scandal.”

“Even the political left in the U.K. (and many other countries) sees how bad this is,” Dupont said. “Pretty soon, the Democrats might be the only ones left supporting this awful malpractice.”

The battle to ban the harmful drugs in the United States reached a new peak last week, when the attorney general of Tennessee defended the state’s ban of transition drugs and surgeries before the U.S. Supreme Court, and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., introduced a bill to ban the mutilation and chemical castration of children on the federal level.

While far-left activists in law and politics, fueled by their allies in the medical industrial complex, maintain that the drugs are completely safe, and even “life-saving,” citing fake suicide statistics, Justice Samuel Alito dismantled those claims during oral argument last week, citing the Cass Review and several other western European countries that have come to similar conclusions.

“The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare wrote the following: They currently assess ‘that the risks of puberty blockers and gender-affirming treatment are likely to outweigh the expected benefits of these treatments,’ which is directly contrary to the sweeping statement in your petition,” Alito told U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who regurgitated far-left lies about the interventions in court. “After the filing of your petition, of course, we saw the release of the Cass report in the United Kingdom, which found a complete lack of high quality evidence showing that the benefits of the treatments in question here outweigh the risks.”

On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 281-140 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act, which included defunding transgender procedures for minors of military families.

There is an increasing understanding of the massive profit motive the medical industry has in entrapping children in the irreversible medical pathway that will continue to require drugs and surgeries for the rest of one’s life.

That is why, as Schilling has pointed out in the past, there is a concerted effort in schools and elsewhere to encourage children to claim to be transgender: They can exponentially increase the number of patients and make an enormous amount of money running brutal medical experiments on America’s youth.

Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.