The Government is ‘minded to renew’ an emergency banning order over the medications which suppress the natural production of sex hormones.
The Government is considering making an emergency ban on puberty blockers permanent subject to the outcome of a legal challenge, the High Court has been told.
The legislation came after the publication of the long-awaited Cass Review by Dr Hilary Cass into children’s gender services in the NHS, which said children have been let down by a lack of research and evidence on the use of puberty blockers and hormones. In a statement after the hearing, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting said: “We will always put the safety of children first.”
Jason Coppel KC, for the group and young person, told the court that the order was made under an emergency process used to prohibit the sale and supply of medications “with immediate effect to avoid serious danger to health”. Julian Milford KC, for the two government bodies, said that Ms Atkins “was fully entitled to adopt a precautionary approach in matters concerning the health of vulnerable children”.
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