Mick Hartley

It is simply a comparison of the short-term effect on the mood of kids who want puberty blockers between… Kids who get what they want straight away and Kids who are told they will have to wait a year for what they want. That’s all. 2/3

This is insane. I can tell them right now that the kids who get what they want now rather than having to wait a year will be much happier in the immediate term. OBVIOUSLY. Even if what they want causes them lifelong problems that they are too immature and fixated to predict 3/3

If they want a real test on puberty blockers, they could look at the thousands who wree given them at the Tavistock Clinic. After a good number of years – ten? fifteen? – the long-term effects will be apparent, and the recipients will be mature enough to understand what’s been done to them.

As for this Pathways trial – yes, it’s a farce. And a disgrace.