Govt trans announcement ‘leaves unanswered questions’
from The Christian Institute:
The Minister for Women and Equalities has announced several changes to gender law, including restricting irreversible treatments for under-18s, to mixed response.
Liz Truss MP suggested that under-18s may soon be unable to have sex-change surgery, that single-sex spaces would be protected, and that transgender adults should be free “to lead their lives as they see fit”, but did not provide any detail on how the Government would proceed.
She made the comments to the Women and Equalities Select Committee now that the Government has analysed responses to its public consultation on the Gender Recognition Act.
Irreversible surgery
Currently, children under 16 usually need parental consent for sex-change medication, but Liz Truss MP said she wanted to restrict minors’ access to irreversible treatments.
Truss told MPs that under-18s should be “protected from decisions that they could make, that are irreversible in the future.
“I believe strongly that adults should have the freedom to lead their lives as they see fit, but I think it’s very important that while people are still developing their decision-making capabilities that we protect them from making those irreversible decisions.”
Her comments could go beyond surgery and also include the use of puberty-blocking drugs and infertility-causing cross-sex hormones.
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