Hundreds of children are set to be jabbed with puberty blockers in the first NHS-backed experiment of its kind.
The controversial clinical study will see as many as 226 children, as young as ten years old, who believe they are transgender, take part.
They will be injected with the drugs to examine whether they could safely be used in future to help young people transform their bodies and become more like the gender they self-identify as, rather than their gender at birth.
Researchers dismissed accusations that the trial could amount to ‘coercing’ children into taking the drugs, which potentially damage fertility, bone density and brain development.
They insisted it would be safe because they have planned the ‘most rigorous and safest study design’ which will involve ‘close monitoring’ of any potential side-effects and risks.
But campaigners branded the study’s launch ‘outrageous’, saying it should be halted.
Sources also suggested that some gender-critical groups could launch a judicial review against the trial in a bid to halt it.
Maya Forstater, CEO of sex-based rights charity Sex Matters, said: ‘It’s outrageous that a trial involving yet more children being given puberty blockers has been given the go-ahead before studying outcomes for those already treated.
‘These drugs are a major intervention, with no evidence to suggest that they do any good and increasing reason to think they cause permanent harm.
‘It’s both foolish and unethical to expose yet more children to experimental treatment.
‘At this point, the only reason to research puberty blockers is to be able to offer long-term medical support to those who have already been exposed.’
Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend, a parent-led campaign group concerned about the rise in young people wanting to change gender, said: ‘We’re very disappointed that the trial is going ahead and we don’t understand how it managed to get approval.
‘We don’t think it’s ethical to give irreversible treatment to children where we don’t have adequate evidence of benefit, but we do know some of the risks.
‘Those are serious risks to fertility, bone density and brain development in adulthood.’
Plans for the trial were announced in 2024 following the publication of the Cass Review, which concluded that the quality of studies claiming puberty blockers have beneficial effects was ‘poor’.
It recommended ‘a full programme of research should be established to look at the characteristics, interventions and outcomes of every young person presenting to the NHS gender services.’
Puberty blockers have since been banned from being prescribed by the NHS.
Before this, they were given to hundreds of children who were treated at the NHS’s controversial child transgender service, the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in London.
To be honest, this country is in the clasp of unadulterated wickedness on every possible level.
This country has become rotten to the core. No surprise people are leaving, and what they are doing makes Dr Josef Mengele look like an angel.
If kids are not old enough to drive, drink, smoke, get married, have sex or vote, then there’s simply no way they should be permitted to agree to be involved in medical experimentation, and this is just state-sanctioned abuse.
We should never experiment on young children, and if they do, then they are just Frankenstein.
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