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UK court hears children cannot consent to puberty blockers

Keira Bell, a 23-year-old woman who began taking puberty blockers when she was 16 before “detransitioning” in her early 20s, and the mother of a 16-year-old girl with autism who is waiting for treatment are bringing a case against the Tavistock and Portman NHS trust, which runs the UK’s only gender identity development service (GIDS) for children.

On Wednesday, lawyers for the pair argued that children who had not yet gone through puberty were not able to properly understand the “lifelong medical, psychological and emotional implications” of taking puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Lawyers for the trust argue that the use of puberty blockers is rarely used in children under the age of 13 and is a “safe and reversible treatment with a well-established history”.

At a hearing in London, the pair’s barrister, Jeremy Hyam QC, argued that in 97% of cases the use of puberty blockers in children led to further treatment, and argued that the use of hormone blockers to address gender dysphoria did “not have any adequate base to support it”.