“I know it won’t feel like it based on the decisions I’m taking today, but I really do care about this and so does this Government.'
Health Secretary Wes Streeting insisted he is “determined” to improve healthcare for trans people as he announced an indefinite ban on puberty blockers for children.
While health is a devolved matter, the ban applies across the UK, the department said, adding that the decision had been taken in consultation with the Scottish and Welsh governments, and in agreement with the Northern Ireland government. “I can’t pretend to know what that’s like, but I do know what it’s like to feel you have to bury a secret about yourself, to be afraid of who you are, to be bullied for it, and then to experience the liberating experience of coming out.
Green MP Sian Berry said she was “extremely worried and fearful” about the decision, describing it as “discriminatory”, while Labour’s Alex Sobel suggested it was “an attack on trans young people”. The ban applies to new patients only, with NHS and private patients already receiving these medicines for gender dysphoria continuing to have access.
She said: “That is why I recommended that they should only be prescribed following a multi-disciplinary assessment and within a research protocol. Recognising division on the subject, he told the Commons: “There are some who have called on the Government not to go ahead with the clinical trial recommended by Dr Cass.
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