A ban on puberty blockers introduced by the Conservative government with emergency legislation was lawful, the High Court has ruled.
Campaign group TransActual, and a young person who cannot be named, made a bid to challenge the decision of now-shadow health secretary Victoria Atkins to impose a so-called 'banning order' on puberty blockers, which suppress the natural production of sex hormones to delay puberty.
The Department of Health and Social Care and the Department of Health in Northern Ireland defended the claim and said the case should be dismissed. She said: 'This decision required a complex and multi-factored predictive assessment, involving the application of clinical judgment and the weighing of competing risks and dangers, with which the court should be slow to interfere.'
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