From the Telegraph – National Lottery funds website with puberty blockers guide:
The National Lottery is funding an organisation that gives children advice on how to get around the “cruel” ban on puberty blockers.
The Love Tank has produced a 53-page guide to puberty-suppressing hormones – used by children who want to change gender – which it says “have been safely used by young people for decades”.
Puberty blockers have been banned in the UK since 2024 after the independent Commission on Human Medicines found they posed an “unacceptable safety risk” to children. The Cass review into gender identity services for children also recommended a ban.
But The Love Tank’s guide advises children as young as nine that the ban “does not apply to puberty-suppressing hormones sourced overseas” and even provides advice on how to self-medicate and how to use cryptocurrency to buy the drugs from abroad.
Campaigners described the advice as “dangerous” and said it was “scandalous” that the National Lottery was providing funding to The Love Tank. The Conservatives called the advice “horrific”.
The National Lottery said the money it gave to The Love Tank was for a different project.
Founded in 2018, The Love Tank is a community interest company, effectively a non-profit organisation, which has in the past received direct government funding.
Among its current publications are a Little Back Pocket Guide to puberty blockers and a DIY HRT Roadmap. The Love Tank also receives funds from the Wellcome Trust, which, with £35bn in assets, is Britain’s biggest charitable trust.
Illustrated with child-friendly cartoons, the Little Back Pocket Guide to Puberty-Suppressing Hormones tells children that the current government ban on puberty blockers is “poorly evidenced, misguided, and cruel”.
In direct contravention of the Commission on Human Medicines’ findings, it says its guide is “informed by the wealth of scientific evidence that supports their use”.
It also says that “the effects of puberty-suppressing hormones are reversible”, directly contradicting the findings of the Cass review, which said that “brain maturation may be temporarily or permanently disrupted by the use of puberty blockers” and that bone density could be permanently affected.
The thought occurs that perhaps the National Lottery Fund and the Wellcome Trust are run by idiots.
Stephanie Davies-Arai, director of the pressure group Transgender Trend, likened The Love Tank to “drug pushers”.
She said: “Puberty blockers are banned by the NHS and the government and there is a serious problem currently with young people sourcing dangerous hormone drugs online without medical supervision.
“This group is knowingly putting young people’s health and even lives at risk. It’s unbelievable that the lottery community fund and Wellcome Trust are funding this dangerous group.”
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