Puberty blockers Archives

Sex, Lies and the Puberty Blocker Trial

Luke O’Reilly Kane reflects on the impact of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on her already delayed development, her...

19th December 2025

Reckless and misleading publication of gender medicine guidelines

The Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) has self-published its “2025 Guidelines for Gender Affirming Healthcare” on Friday....

3rd December 2025

Activist-Written Guidelines Risk Undermining Patient Safety

The New Zealand government is ignoring a growing international consensus about puberty blockers. The use of puberty blockers for...

28th October 2025

Supporters of the NHS Puberty Blocker Study Are Still Missing the Point

Earlier this year, Genspect UK published a comprehensive report on the ethical and practical challenges faced by the NHS puberty blocker...

23rd October 2025

The Journey Back to Me: A Story of Detransition

My story feels timeless in parts—love, loss, the ache to belong, and the wild imagination of 15-year-olds dreaming of...

14th August 2025

Closing Clinics and Loopholes

“I’m glad that isn’t happening anymore.” My “normie” friend was remarking on the news that another hospital would no longer offer...

8th August 2025

The G-Men Cometh

On Wednesday July 9th, parents, detransitioners, clinicians, legal professionals, and others gathered with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in...

11th July 2025

Society’s Perfect Storm: Mental Health, Body Image, and Social Media

From 1995 to 2016, a period spanning over two decades and thousands of patient encounters, I did not meet...

10th June 2025

Why We Must Protect Puberty
How Genspect’s Memorandum of Understanding is rallying a global movement to defend healthy adolescent development

So, you might very well ask: why on earth do we need a Memorandum of Understanding to Protect the Role...

30th May 2025

Why We Watch and Wait

Imagine a teen arrives at the mental health unit where you work. Once they are settled, you sit down...

1st April 2025

WPATH’s Annus Horribilis

As 2024 ended, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health could have described the past year with the same...

7th March 2025

Blocking the Puberty Blocker Study

When I first set about writing the puberty blocker report, I was advised not to bother – apparently, it would...

17th February 2025

An Ethical Design for the UK’s Puberty Blocker Trial?

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) proposes to inject a new cohort of gender dysphoric children with powerful gonadotropin-releasing hormone...

22nd January 2025

Genspect’s Final Submission to the UK Commission on Human Medicines Puberty Blocker Consultation

Genspect fully supports the Government’s ban on puberty blockers for gender distressed children and young people. We believe the...

30th October 2024

Genspect’s Submission to the UK Department of Health and Social Care’s Consultation on Puberty Blockers

The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has launched a targeted consultation on a proposed permanent order...

16th September 2024

Flawed Approach to New Zealand’s Kids in Care

In New Zealand, the Children’s Ministry/Oranga Tamariki (OT) has refreshed its policy on child well-being. As part of this...

26th June 2024

Why Depressed Children Shouldn’t Be Given Puberty Blockers

When I heard of “puberty blockers” being given to healthy children I was astonished. My own experience with hormone...

11th June 2024

Rotten Endocrinology in Italy

There is something truly and undeniably rotten in the Italian Society of Endocrinology, (Società Endocrinologia Italiana, SEI). The SEI...

15th May 2024

A Practical Response to Gender Distress: A Review

Review of A Practical Response to Gender Distress, by Pamela Garfield-Jaeger LCSW, MS Oh, how I wish I had this...

22nd April 2024

Are “Life Goals” Anything to Do with Health Services?

Among the final recommendations of the United Kingdom’s Cass Review of the treatment of children and young people is...

20th April 2024

UK NHS Report Casts a Shadow on Australian Gender Clinic Practices

MEDIA RELEASE – Genspect Australia Current medical treatments for children with gender dysphoria lack supporting evidence, according to a...

19th April 2024

Reflections on the Cass Report

This is an area of remarkably weak evidence, and yet results of studies are exaggerated or misrepresented by people...

17th April 2024

Circumcision and the Medicalization of Sex

Conforming to the norms of gender has long been the motivation for harmful medical interventions on young people I...

16th April 2024

Genspect Welcomes Dr Hilary Cass’s Report

Genspect welcomes Dr Hilary Cass’s report and we look forward to seeing a wider range of treatment options and...

10th April 2024

Gender Identity in Italy: The Developing Situation at Careggi Hospital

The explosion of children and adolescents adopting a gender identity over the last decade is not restricted to the...

9th April 2024

Informed Consent Is Critical in Healthcare, But Apparently Not to Activist Gender Clinicians

“If it’s not documented, it didn’t happen” and many other lessons were taught during my graduate education and training...

5th April 2024

The New Puberty Blocker Experiment on the UK’s Children

In March 2022, the interim findings of the Cass Review into the United Kingdom’s childhood gender services proposed the...

19th March 2024

The WPATH Files Revealed

The WPATH Files are leaked internal conversations that were sent to Michael Shellenberger last year. Michael worked on these...

5th March 2024

Leading doctors lodge formal complaint about HSE treatment of Irish children with gender identity issues

On Friday the 15th of December 2023, the Irish national broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) broke the news that...

24th December 2023

The effort to get FDA approval for drugs currently used off-label in “gender-affirming care”

A non-profit called Research Institute for Gender Therapeutics (RIGT) was formed with the express purpose of securing FDA approval...

20th December 2023

To Help Trans-Identifying Kids, Follow The Science

Much is being learned As a STEM researcher and a lifelong liberal democrat, I fervently hold that young trans-identifying...

5th April 2023

Norway Takes a Step Forward in Ending “Experiment” in Youth Gender Medicine

Independent body finds the country’s affirmative approach risky, irreversible, and based on cherry-picked research. An independent investigating body in...

22nd March 2023

Genspect Goes for “The Bigger Picture”

EPATH (WPATH) counter conference. Read to find out more.

2nd March 2023

Nothing to See Here

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a grand round with a leading gender clinician in my city. Let’s...

25th February 2023

Gender Chaos

By July 2013 the Irish Government was already committed to bringing in a system of gender recognition so that...

24th February 2023

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