Category: Puberty blockers

  • Did NHS Chief Medical Officer suppress puberty blocker information?

    Did NHS Chief Medical Officer suppress puberty blocker information?

    “Keep this audit to ourselves for the time being” The former Chief Medical Officer of NHS Sussex asked a colleague who had prepared a report on the number of children being prescribed puberty blockers by local doctors to “keep this audit to ourselves for the time being”. On 7 May 2021 Dr Elizabeth Gill was…

  • NHS exec skewers own legal case

    NHS exec skewers own legal case

    Adam Doyle gives evidence in Redvers v NHS Sussex An NHS exec accepted in court today that a key element of his defence against a gender critical doctor’s discrimination claim was “absurd”. He also accepted he was aware of concerns that a transgender GP, Dr Sam Hall, was prescribing hormones to children in contravention of…

  • NHS knew of concerns about trans Dr in 2020

    NHS knew of concerns about trans Dr in 2020

    Whistleblower told NHS Sussex and NHS England of problems with Dr Sam Hall’s methods and was accused of transphobia. An NHS Doctor raised the alarm about the activities of Dr Sam Hall in 2020, a full five years before NHS Sussex started an investigation into Brighton’s WellBN clinic – which concluded it had it caused…

  • Former Gender Clinician: “It’s pseudo-medicine”

    Former Gender Clinician: “It’s pseudo-medicine”

    Shortly after publishing the piece which flagged the Welsh Gender Service as a potential Service of Concern (now a fully fledged Actual Concern) I received an email from a former gender clinician I had briefly met in London earlier this year. Let’s call her Anna. Anna worked at an adult gender clinic between 2016 and…

  • Legal Challenge to Puberty Blocker Trial fails

    Legal Challenge to Puberty Blocker Trial fails

    The attempt to stop the Pathways puberty blocker trial at the High Court has failed. After a two day permissions hearing earlier this week, Mr Justice Chamberlain refused to allow the application to go to full review on the basis that “none of the grounds of challenge has a realistic prospect of success”. The Bayswater…

  • Decision on Puberty Blocker Judicial Review tomorrow

    Decision on Puberty Blocker Judicial Review tomorrow

    A decision on whether a judicial review into the government’s Pathways puberty blocker trial can go ahead will be handed down at the High Court in London tomorrow at 2pm. The judicial review applicants are seeking permission to have the trial stopped, claiming the decisions which led to its approval were made unlawfully and the…

  • Jonni Skinner: Still Walking, Wounded.

    Jonni Skinner: Still Walking, Wounded.

    “I was severely, severely misled.” Jonni Skinner is a 23 year old detransitioner from Michigan. I met him at the Life Beyond Transition conference in Washington DC earlier this year. Jonni spoke on a panel about his experience of being medically transitioned and the harm done to him as a result. Jonni’s recent testimony has…

  • NHS: Gender Doctors Harmed Children

    NHS: Gender Doctors Harmed Children

    An NHS investigation into the activities of WellBN – a Brighton GP surgery which prescribed cross-sex hormones to children – has found it caused “actual potential harm” to its young patients and “fell substantially below” the professional standards of care required. A Patient Safety Investigation Report, completed on 8 May, but published on the NHS…

  • FTC boss to detransitioners: Your Voice is Heard

    FTC boss to detransitioners: Your Voice is Heard

    It’s quite a coup to get one serving member of any government to a Genspect event let alone two. I have written up the views of Admiral Christine, Donald Trump’s Assistant Health Secretary, who gave the keynote speech at this year’s Life Beyond Transition conference in Washington DC. The second member of the Trump administration…

  • US Health Admiral: gender surgery must be ‘eradicated like the plague it is’

    US Health Admiral: gender surgery must be ‘eradicated like the plague it is’

    Donald Trump’s Assistant Secretary for Health today vowed he would “not stop” until the “barbaric practice” of gender surgery for children in the United States is “eradicated like the plague it is.” Admiral Brian Christine was speaking on Thursday at Life Beyond Transition 2026 – a one-day conference bringing together the largest ever gathering of…