There is no doubt that gender incongruence in children can be a highly emotive subject, causing uncertainty in decision-making and a fear of litigation or regulatory action for those involved in their care. However, as with all difficult decisions relating to this...
Rook Irwin Sweeney LLP – Call for Change to the NHS Specification
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Parents Given Legal Right To Consent to Puberty Blockers
If a child cannot consent to taking puberty blockers their loving parent can consent in their stead. That is the outcome of the decision of the High Court, earlier this morning, in the case of AB v Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust (full decision below), the...
Parents Can Give Consent to Puberty Blockers
Neutral Citation Number: [2021] EWHC 741 (Fam) Case No: FD21P00063 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE FAMILY DIVISION Date: 26/03/2021 Before : MRS JUSTICE LIEVEN Between : AB and CD and THE TAVISTOCK AND PORTMAN Read the full document We support trans youth -...
Parents can give consent for their child to access puberty blockers
Parental consent can be given, but more must be done News that trans youth can now access puberty blockers on the NHS with parental consent will come as a huge relief to so many left high and dry by the NHS following the December ruling in the Bell and Mrs A v...
Bell v Tavistock: Statement on Parental Consent for Blockers
We welcome today’s High Court Family Division ruling that parents can consent to their children being prescribed puberty blockers without needing to go to court, and that puberty blockers are not a special category of treatment which has to be authorised by a court...
Good Law Project v Tavistock Ruling: GIDS response
The High Court has this morning (Friday 26 March 2021) handed down a judgment that confirms parents can consent on behalf of their child for hormone treatment to suppress puberty. Read the judgment on the Judiciary.uk website. The judgment relates to a private court...
Livestream raises £3,050 towards the treatment of trans youth!
We are absolutely delighted to announce that, following a marathon gaming session that ran over two weekends in February, gamer Ed “SuperSweetBoy” Sweet has raised an incredible £3,050 towards the care of trans youth, via the GenderGP Fund. Ed, SuperMario and Co, were...
Join Super Mario & Co in raising funds for trans youth this weekend
Start your engines...this coming weekend (February 20/21) Twitch streamer @EdwardTSweet, will be holding a marathon livestream event to raise funds for trans youth, via The GenderGP Fund. The event kicks off at 2pm UK time (9am Eastern Standard Time) on Twitch for...
GenderGP delighted to learn of joint intervention
GenderGP stands firmly with The Good Law Project and the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and their stance on the Appeal that has been granted in the case of Bell and Mrs A against the Tavistock. ‘The intervention is made on behalf of a small group of NGOs...