1,000 UK Doctors Condemn Medical Association's Push to Lift Puberty Blocker Ban for Minors

Jonathon Van Maren-Blog : Aug 12, 2024
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1,000 senior doctors signed an open letter to the British Medical Association after it lobbied for the NHS to lift a ban on puberty blockers for children following the Cass Review, which found the drugs were harmful.

(United Kingdom) — [LifeSiteNews.com] On August 1, the British Medical Association (BMA)—the United Kingdom's doctors' union—called on the government to lift the ban on puberty blockers for minors. Weirdly, the BMA also stated that in their view the implementation of NHS England's Cass Review should be "paused"despite the fact that, as the BBC noted, the review "took four years to carry out and was widely welcomed by the medical establishment in the UK" The BMA called the Cass Review's recommendations—based on "the largest and most comprehensive review" on the subject seen, looking at 237 papers from 18 countries—"unsubstantiated." (Image: Pixabay)

A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care responded to the BMA, firmly rejecting both the request and the claim, stating, "The Cass Review is a robust report backed by clinicians and firmly grounded in evidence. NHS England will be implementing Dr. Cass' recommendations so that children and young people get the safe, holistic support they need. We do not support a delay to vital improvements from the NHS to gender services."Even the leftist Guardian ran an editorial criticizing the BMA's position, stating, "The BMA's stance on puberty blockers defies the key principle of medicine: first, do no harm."

READ: FDA official recommends approval of puberty blockers despite suicide risk for gender-confused youth 

As it turns out, there are plenty of physicians who are very unhappy with the BMA's move—and they are now making their voices heard. This week, 1,000 senior doctors from across the UK published an open letter addressed to Professor Philip Banfield, chairman of the BMA.

"We write as doctors to say, ‘not in my name,'" the letter reads. "We are extremely disappointed that the BMA council had passed a motion to conduct a ‘critique' of the Cass Review and to lobby to oppose its recommendations. The passing of the motion was opaque and secretive. It does not reflect the views of the wider membership, whose opinion you did not seek. We understand that no information will be released on the voting figures and how council members voted. That is a failure of accountability to members and is simply not acceptable."

The open letter further emphasizes that the Cass Review "is the most comprehensive review into healthcare for children with gender related distress ever conducted" and urged the BMA to "abandon its pointless exercise" of attacking and opposing the recommendations. "By lobbying against the best evidence we have, the BMA is going against the principles of evidence-based medicine and against ethical practice"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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