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Headline : Gender therapy review reveals devastating impacts on teens

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A top Human Rights Council-appointed expert has welcomed the decision by all health authorities in the United Kingdom to halt the routine use of puberty-blockers offered to children as part of gender transition services, amid a sharp increase more widely in the number of teenage girls seeking such treatment and concerns that it might disrupt brain development.

The development is in line with several western European countries that have reportedly reduced access to similar gender identity treatments whose benefits were found to be โ€œremarkably weakโ€, according to a National Health Service (NHS) England-commissioned review, published on 10 April by consultant paediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass.

UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem also welcomed the commitment by the UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to implement the implications of the Cass Review.

It โ€œhasโ€ฆvery clearly shown the devastating consequences that policies on gender treatments have had on human rights of children, including girlsโ€ฆits implications go beyond the UK,โ€ said the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Ms. Alsalem.

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