UK's puberty blocker ban for children with gender dysphoria to be made indefinite

British health secretary Wes Streeting has spoken in Parliament about the latest update on puberty-suppressing hormones (Peter Byrne/PA)

A ban on puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria in the UK is to be made indefinite after experts warned of an “unacceptable safety risk”.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) had published independent expert advice that there is “currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children”.