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Mallory Moench, Time
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 4:23am

Scotland’s only gender clinic for young people has paused prescribing puberty blockers for new patients under 18 years old after the National Health Service (NHS) in England banned children from receiving the gender treatment last month. Puberty blockers are used to delay puberty changes by stopping the body from making sex hormones including testosterone and estrogen.

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  • Private Doctors in the U.K. Can No Longer Prescribe Puberty Blockers to New Patients
    The “emergency ban” is an expansion of the freeze on blockers instituted by the National Health Service (NHS) in March.
    05/30/2024 - 6:01 am | View Link
  • Private prescriptions of puberty blockers for children to be banned
    Private prescriptions of puberty blockers to children will be banned in one of the Government’s last acts, it emerged on Wednesday. No new patients under 18 would be given them if they were ...
    05/29/2024 - 9:56 am | View Link
  • Scotland's under-18s gender clinic pauses puberty blockers
    Scotland's NHS has paused prescribing puberty blockers to children referred by its specialist gender clinic. The Sandyford clinic in Glasgow also said new patients aged 16 or 17 would no longer ...
    04/17/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
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