LONDON (AP) — The British government on Wednesday indefinitely banned puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria after independent experts found there was an unacceptable safety risk in ...

In late 2024, Wes Streeting, the then health secretary, announced a permanent ban on puberty blockers in the NHS following ...

The Health Secretary stripped responsibility for a puberty blocker trial from a junior minister who had raised safeguarding ...

Doctors from the British Medical Association (BMA) have said that the medical body no longer opposes the Cass review, but believes that clinicians should still be able to prescribe puberty blockers.

Girls as young as 11 will be eligible for puberty blockers under a restarted trial. In February, regulators halted the ...

Dr Hilary Cass says she is "absolutely convinced that more children will be harmed if we don't do the trial than if we do." ...

Gender-questioning children will have to be at least 11 years old to take part in a clinical trial assessing the risks and benefits of puberty-blocking drugs. The planned Pathways Trial was paused in ...

Britain's biggest doctors’ union has backed down in the row over child gender medicine after admitting the evidence behind prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children is marked by ...