The Government has signed off on new restrictions governing the use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues — commonly known as puberty blockers — while ensuring patients who need the medication for established medical conditions can still access treatment, Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced.
Brown said the changes aim to give families greater confidence that treatment decisions are “clinically sound and in the best interests of the young person,” noting that the medication remains essential for conditions such as precocious puberty, endometriosis and prostate cancer.
An evidence brief from the Ministry of Health found a lack of high-quality research into the benefits or risks of using puberty blockers for gender dysphoria, prompting the Government to take what Brown described as a precautionary approach.
Under new regulations to be drafted for the Medicines Act, New Zealand will align with the United Kingdom’s approach. This includes stopping new prescriptions of puberty blockers for young people with gender dysphoria until the results of the UK’s ongoing clinical trial are available. Existing patients already receiving the medication for gender dysphoria will not be affected.
Cabinet has also agreed to maintain current youth gender services and centralise information into an accessible online resource to support young people and their families. Brown said the shift reflects moves by countries such as the UK, Finland, Norway and Sweden, which have recently introduced additional safeguards.
“These changes are about ensuring treatments are safe and carefully managed, while maintaining access to care for those who need it,” Brown said, adding that specialist support within existing services is expected to continue uninterrupted.
I am not a supporter puberty blockers. Zero tolerance for gender change surgery. I regard it as butchery.
Government should panda to the vast majority, not these idiots who are tricking people into mutilation.
A real government would be facilitating their arrest and mass executions as far as I’m concerned.
Too bad we don’t have a real government, just an organised mafia of professional money launderers.
“Brown said the changes aim to give families greater confidence that treatment decisions are “clinically sound and in the best interests of the young person”
The genuine medical exceptions cited represent less than 0.1 to 1 case per 100,000. In total we can expect at most 0 to 4
children to be diagnosed with one of these conditions in any given year.
There is ZERO justification scientifically for prescribing puberty blockers to a child for any reason other than the above with any such diagnoses being medical malpractice by physically harming the child (who is not competent to make any decision) for what amounts to confusion, peer pressure, psychological distress, or abuse of the child by a parent (almost always the mother) for social media popularity, approval and financial gain.
The government continues to gaslight the uninformed and the gullible at the cost of a the lives and futures of our most vulnerable
Stay away from our kids!
Always pushing big pharma when a simpler, safer, sensible solution, would be a psychologist…..