Join the Global Movement to Protect Puberty!
By Genspect
In May 2025, Genspect launched the Memorandum of Understanding on the Role of Puberty in Adolescent Development because we recognize that simply banning puberty-blocking drugs, while critically important, is not enough.
The Pathways Puberty Blocker Trial in the UK underscores the urgent need to challenge the dangerous complacency surrounding these experimental medical interventions on children and adolescents.
As long as puberty is regarded as a problem to be solved rather than an essential and irreducible part of human flourishing, attempts to manipulate it will continue.
Puberty is not a crossroads between male and female. It is the gateway to authentic adulthood and the birthright of every child.
If you haven’t already, please read, sign, and share the Memorandum at ProtectingPuberty.com.
The Memorandum of Understanding
Since 2021, Genspect has exposed the harms of medical transition in young people and advocated for ethical, non-medicalized approaches to gender-related distress. The Memorandum of Understanding on the Role of Puberty in Adolescent Development transforms this advocacy into collective action—uniting organizations worldwide to publicly commit to protecting children from experimental interventions that disrupt their natural development.
Why This Matters Now
Puberty isn’t optional. It’s the profound transformation that shapes who we become as adults. No adolescent can skip developmental stages without consequences—each phase builds upon the last, creating the foundation for a healthy, fulfilling life.
During puberty, something remarkable happens: our sexual and romantic awakening doesn’t just prepare us for intimate relationships. It ignites ambition, drives career building, motivates social growth, and pushes us toward fully realized adulthood. That first crush, that yearning to connect—these experiences complexify our minds and hearts in ways medical intervention cannot replicate.
The Stakes
When children are blocked from experiencing puberty, they’re denied more than physical development. They miss cognitive leaps, emotional growth, and social maturation that transform children into adults capable of navigating life’s complexities.
Through our Beyond Trans program, we’ve met detransitioners who describe feeling frozen in time—experimental, medically constructed adults who never experienced the developmental building blocks of adulthood.
What the MoU Accomplishes
By signing, organizations commit to:
- Recognizing puberty as essential for healthy development
- Supporting non-medicalized approaches to gender-related distress
- Protecting children from experimental interventions
- Upholding the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
This creates a visible network that parents, professionals, and policymakers can trust—making it impossible to claim there’s “no alternative” to medical transition.
Take Action
Organizations:
- Visit ProtectingPuberty.com
- Review the MoU
- Download the compliance badge
- Display it prominently
- Email info@genspect.org to sign and feature your logo
Already committed: Sex Matters, Can-SG, Transgender Trend, Our Duty, Thoughtful Therapists, Critical Therapy Antidote, LGB Alliance, and more.
Individuals:
- Sign the Statement of Concern opposing the NHS puberty blocker trial
- Share this initiative widely
- Support organizations displaying the MoU badge
Leading voices on board: Prof David Bell, Dr Az Hakeem, Marcus and Sue Evans, Dr Stephen Levine, Sasha Ayad, Dr Louise Irvine, Dr Stella Kingett, Dr Jillian Spencer, James Caspian, Bob Withers, James Esses, Prof Dianna Kenny.
The Time Is Now
The evidence is clear. The harms are documented. While some call for more studies, children are being irreversibly harmed today.
This MoU creates a public registry of organizations that refuse to support medical experiments on children. It gives parents a clear way to identify safe, ethical support. It forces the conversation: if puberty is essential for development, why are we blocking it?
Every adolescent deserves to cross the bridge from childhood to adulthood naturally, to experience the full spectrum of human development, and to emerge with the tools they need for a healthy, autonomous future.
👉 Visit ProtectingPuberty.com today.
Children are counting on us to speak up, stand together, and protect their futures.