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Baroness Merron (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 December 2025

Debate

Puberty Suppressants Trial

Contribution

It is probably helpful to say that no one is required to be on the trial. Nobody will be accepted on to the trial unless there is an extremely rigorous and clinically led judgment about whether a young person is suitable. On the point about transparency, all that information is available online and I would urge noble Lords to look at it. The temporary ban was brought in by the previous Health Secretary, Victoria Atkins, and, in my view, it was absolutely right that we made it a permanent one. However, the issues remain, and we must work out how best to support children and young people who suffer gender incongruence.

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