Both: How do you feel about the High Court's decision in the Keira Bell case?

submitted by worried19 from self.GCdebatesQT

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

If you don’t think that middle class and rich people don’t have options that poor people don’t then you’re mistaken

[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sure, people with financial means can doctor-shop amongst private practitioners in the UK, or go outside the country like Susie Green did to put her son on puberty blockers and CSHs.

But in most cases, prescriptions written by doctors operating outside the UK will still have to be filled by regulated UK pharmacies. Which are already on the alert to orgs like Gender GP, operating outside the UK, trying to get around the ruling. I imagine pharmacies - if only coz their insurance companies force them to - will be putting in place extra controls to flag up when these drugs are being prescribed to kids and to make sure the treatment is legit. As happens in the case of other drugs, like morphine.

Also, in the UK, GPs will be on notice to detect the signs of PB and CSH use amongst their minor patients.

This ruling is just the beginning of more stringent efforts to protect young people in England and Wales.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This ruling is a temporary abberation from a country that the conservatives are running into the ground. When Labour gets back in power the pendulum will swing the other way, against bigotry