Equalities Minister confirms under 18s will be protected from trans procedures
from The Christian Institute:
The Minister for Women and Equalities has told controversial trans lobby group Mermaids that she will continue to protect youngsters from harmful ‘sex-swap’ procedures.
In April, Liz Truss MP announced that under 18s would be protected from making “irreversible decisions” while “still developing their decision-making capabilities”.
Mermaids wrote to the Minister asking her to consult with transgender children and young people before she ‘clarifies’ her comments, but Truss stood by her original remarks.
Protect children
In her letter to Mermaids CEO Susie Green, Truss wrote that while she is “committed to ensuring children and young people are able to access appropriate and timely psychological and medical support”, she wants to protect them from potential harm.
She said: “I do believe that under 18s must be protected from taking decisions which could have an irreversible impact on their development.”
Truss also added that “the Gender Recognition Act does not currently enable those under 18 to apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate and there are no plans for this to change”.
Not recommended
Unhappy at the Minister’s response, Mermaids Head of Legal and Policy Lui Asquith claimed that the conversation surrounding young people who believe they are transgender was beset by “harmful misinformation” and called for legal sex changes to be made much easier and for non-binary genders to be recognised in law.
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