{"id":163589,"date":"2020-10-07T15:45:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T13:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/07\/court-hears-children-cannot-consent-to-puberty-blockers\/"},"modified":"2020-10-07T15:45:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T13:45:42","slug":"court-hears-children-cannot-consent-to-puberty-blockers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=163589","title":{"rendered":"Court hears children cannot consent to puberty blockers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHS trust sued over UK\u2019s only gender identity development service for childrenThe argument that children can give informed consent to the prescription of puberty blockers is a \u201cfairy tale\u201d, the high court has been told.Keira Bell, a 23-year-old woman who began taking puberty blockers when she was 16 before \u201cdetransitioning\u201d in her early 20s, and the mother of a 16-year-old girl with autism who is waiting for treatment are suing the Tavistock and Portman NHS trust, which runs the UK\u2019s only gender identity development service (GIDS) for children. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2020\/oct\/07\/court-hears-children-cannot-consent-to-puberty-blockers\" target=\"_blank\">Court hears children cannot consent to puberty blockers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHS trust sued over UK\u2019s only gender identity development service for childrenThe argument that children can give informed consent to the prescription of puberty blockers is a \u201cfairy tale\u201d, the high court has been told.Keira Bell, a 23-year-old woman who began taking puberty blockers when she was 16 before \u201cdetransitioning\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}