Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 25257

Gender Dysphoria: Puberty Suppressing Hormones

Tabled: 21 January 2025
Answered: 29 January 2025

Question

Cat Smith

LabourLancaster and Wyre

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the impact of the restriction of puberty blockers for the treatment of gender incongruence on the (a) physical and (b) mental health of young trans people.

Answer

Karin Smyth
On 11 December 2024 the Government introduced The Medicines (Gonadotrophin-Releasing Hormone Analogues) (Restrictions on Private Sales and Supplies) Order 2024, which came into effect on 1 January 2025. Alongside this legislation the Government published ...

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