NHS to prescribe cross-sex hormones to teenagers at gender clinics
by Daniel Martin, Telegraph:
New guidance comes despite organisation’s ban on giving puberty blockers to under-18s.
The NHS will prescribe gender-changing hormones to teenagers as young as 16 at its youth gender clinics, new guidance states.
It comes a week after the NHS announced an immediate ban on prescribing puberty blockers to under-18s, unless they are part of a clinical trial that is due to start later this year.
But NHS England’s new guidance around “cross-sex hormones” means the drugs can be given to teenagers as part of its Children and Young People Gender Service.
The treatment, known as gender-affirming hormones (GAH), would be available for “young people with continuing gender incongruence [or] gender dysphoria from around their 16th birthday”, as long as they met certain eligibility criteria, it said.
The guidance about the use of masculinising or feminising hormones, issued on Thursday, was criticised by Jackie Doyle-Price, the former health minister, who said administering the cross-sex hormones – testosterone or oestrogen – should not be given to children.
She tweeted: “This kind of hormone treatment causes permanent loss of sexual function. It should never be administered to children for the purposes of gender reassignment.”
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