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Scotland Pauses Prescribing Puberty Blockers to Under-18s
Scotland’s only gender clinic for young people has paused prescribing puberty blockers for new patients under 18 years old after the National Health Service (NHS) in England banned children from receiving the gender treatment last month. Puberty blockers are used to delay puberty changes by stopping the body from making sex hormones including testosterone and estrogen. They can be prescribed to treat gender dysphoria, the clinical term for psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The Sandyford Clinic, based in Glasgow, announced that new patients aged 16 and 17 “wi

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