• England’s National Health Service on Friday officially announced plans to ban the use of puberty blockers for minors outside clinical settings.
• “We are now going out to targeted stakeholder testing on an interim clinical commissioning policy proposing that, outside of a research setting, puberty suppressing hormones should not be routinely commissioned for children and adolescents who have gender incongruence/dysphoria,” the NHS has announced.
• Puberty blockers can cause bone development issues in children and lead to an increased risk of fractures later in life. Some medical experts believe the use of puberty blockers on young children may place children on a fast track to receiving other sex change procedures.

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