Sanity at Last: Britain's High Court Protects Young Children From Transgender Chemical Castration

On Tuesday, Britain’s High Court defended young children from the transgender movement’s rush to give kids experimental drugs that put them on a path to chemical castration. The court laid out a framework for considering whether minors under age 18 might be able to give informed consent to receive experimental so-called “puberty-blocking” drugs intended to treat gender dysphoria (the persistent condition of identifying with a gender opposite one’s biological sex).

In a groundbreaking ruling that should set the standard for such complex issues, Dame Victoria Sharp concluded that puberty-blockers are experimental, that their effects are not “reversible” as transgender activists claim, and that in order to consent to receive such drastic treatment, children must understand adult concepts that are almost certainly beyond their grasp.

The case involved Quincy Bell — a woman who received puberty-blocking drugs at a 16 and then proceeded to get a mastectomy, only to reject her transgender identity as male — and the mother of an autistic daughter who appears to identify as male. The women brought a case against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Britain’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS).

GIDS set Bell on a path to puberty-blockers at age 16 and she started taking testosterone at 17. By age 20, she realized “the vision I had as a teenager of becoming male was strictly a fantasy and that it was not possible. My biological make-up was still female and it showed, no matter how much testosterone was in my system or how much I would go to the gym. … I felt like a fraud and I began to feel more lost, isolated and confused than I did when I was pre-transition.”

How long does it take the court to reach this genius conclusion. I dont think they deserve a pat on the back for simply not being evil.

Don’t give them too much credit. As you said, it took a long time to come to an obvious conclusion.

Puberty blockers were created to treat physical disease not mental disease.

Doctors have gotten in trouble for prescribing HCQ off label for a physical disease. Puberty blockers are being used way off label to treat an mental disease.

This should be glaringly obvious that these drugs are being used improperly for the ailment being treated. There are no long-term studies that determined the safety and efficacy of this use of these drugs for this disorder.

And what are the long-term effects of the use of Testosterone by females? The Russians may know after years of its use by Russian female athletes.

But the long-term use of Estrogen by males I haven’t a clue.

Frankly this crap scares me. What will become of these children? I can foresee a similar circumstance to the foot bound women of China who were given pensions by the communist because they were unable to work due to the fashion sense of the Chinese people of the late 19th and early 20 century.

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