March 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
‘Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25’: A neuroscientist demolishes the greatest mind myth
www.sciencefocus.com...
Dr Dean Burnett tackles a stubborn, and increasingly harmful, brain myth. For Science Focus Magazine.
#Brains #Teens #Development #Autonomy
www.sciencefocus.com...
Dr Dean Burnett tackles a stubborn, and increasingly harmful, brain myth. For Science Focus Magazine.
#Brains #Teens #Development #Autonomy
‘Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25’: A neuroscientist demolishes the greatest mind myth | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Whether you are young or old, your brain is always changing.
www.sciencefocus.com
June 7, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Victoria Casey KC argued that the Cass report ‘is generally regarded outside the UK as not sound’.
A decent summary from LawNews about the proceedings so far, mostly focused on our summary of the issues lawnews.nz/health/bid-t...
July 13, 2026 at 2:46 PM
June 11, 2026 at 7:59 PM
I share concerns of experts at the Council of Europe that removing access to #PubertyBlockers except through clinical trials may breach “fundamental ethical principles governing research”, amounting to coercion and a breach of young people's human rights. I asked Wes Streeting about this today... 🧵
December 11, 2024 at 5:47 PM
I share concerns of experts at the Council of Europe that removing access to #PubertyBlockers except through clinical trials may breach “fundamental ethical principles governing research”, amounting to coercion and a breach of young people's human rights. I asked Wes Streeting about this today... 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Amazingly @mirror.co.uk has picked up on the letter TransActual shared yesterday about the disgusting Cass report and the genocidal NHS response
If only they'd expose how Kemi Badenoch commissioned the review and how Wes Streeting caused so much harm and death
www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...
If only they'd expose how Kemi Badenoch commissioned the review and how Wes Streeting caused so much harm and death
www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...
May 30, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Total War from the Government and NHS on Trans Kids.
Complete refusal to allow trans under 18's to exist.
Ideoligcally driven hate.
The trans genocide gathers pace.
Streeting and every GC Ideologist must be held to account one day for their henious crimes.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Complete refusal to allow trans under 18's to exist.
Ideoligcally driven hate.
The trans genocide gathers pace.
Streeting and every GC Ideologist must be held to account one day for their henious crimes.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
NHS England pauses new referrals for masculinising or feminising hormone treatment in under-18s
Review finds evidence does not back use of treatment for 16 and 17-year-olds with gender incongruence or dysphoria
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2026 at 7:33 AM
The recent policy change which makes it impossible for young trans people to delay puberty, at great cost to their mental health, has a special caveat to allow cross-sex hormones to be used on intersex children even contrary to their wishes, at great cost to their mental health.
November 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
As my colleague @sianberry.bsky.social pointed out in her question to Streeting, #PubertyBlockers are approved for use as safe for intersex young people, and those experiencing early puberty. So targeting this ban only on trans youth is, at heart, discriminatory
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Continuing the ban on puberty blockers is a worrying decision.
The same medication continues to be used safely by young people for other reasons. By relying on the reason for prescription, is this ban simply discrimination against our
#trans youth? 👇
The same medication continues to be used safely by young people for other reasons. By relying on the reason for prescription, is this ban simply discrimination against our
#trans youth? 👇
December 11, 2024 at 5:56 PM
As my colleague @sianberry.bsky.social pointed out in her question to Streeting, #PubertyBlockers are approved for use as safe for intersex young people, and those experiencing early puberty. So targeting this ban only on trans youth is, at heart, discriminatory
bsky.app/profile/sian...
bsky.app/profile/sian...
Bloody hell… A report which is accurate, states Cass is internationally discredited and calls a trans-woman a trans woman.
Mind blown…
www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/mp-accu...
Mind blown…
www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/mp-accu...
MP accused of ‘vile and immoral’ misinformation by former council colleague
Angus MacDonald has been told he has let his constituents down by his former Fort William and Ardnamurchan ward colleague.
www.inverness-courier.co.uk
June 29, 2026 at 5:55 AM
It's London trans pride on 27 July. If you're horrified by Streeting's avowed intent to make the puberty blocker ban permanent, please step up and show it. There are a lot more of us cis folk than trans folk; we all need to use our voices and platforms. #PubertyBlockers
July 16, 2024 at 7:19 AM
It's London trans pride on 27 July. If you're horrified by Streeting's avowed intent to make the puberty blocker ban permanent, please step up and show it. There are a lot more of us cis folk than trans folk; we all need to use our voices and platforms. #PubertyBlockers
The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots…
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
November 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
November 23, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Well, yes. #TransKids #PubertyBlockers
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Well, yes. #TransKids #PubertyBlockers
On 28 July 2026, ABC News published an article, "National guidelines on puberty blockers coming as fraught debate continues," by Stephanie Dalzell and Celina Edmonds.
This piece has several problems. Here are a few.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
This piece has several problems. Here are a few.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Puberty blockers have been used since the 80s. Why are they now controversial?
The fierce debate over puberty blockers has become a collision of science and politics. To try to address a fractured consensus, the federal government is attempting to lay the groundwork for a nation...
www.abc.net.au
July 28, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Just gonna leave this here and ask you to think about the (unfounded) reasons they used emergency legislation to ban puberty blockers
June 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Well this news puts this older story into a completely different light, no wonder she was worried about a potential conversion therapy ban
December 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
... So that's something at least, as I was very worried about the risks if trans and gender-questioning young people had been left with no legal options at all for accessing #PubertyBlockers treatment for years.
But I'm still really concerned...
But I'm still really concerned...
December 11, 2024 at 5:54 PM
... So that's something at least, as I was very worried about the risks if trans and gender-questioning young people had been left with no legal options at all for accessing #PubertyBlockers treatment for years.
But I'm still really concerned...
But I'm still really concerned...
Posting this article so more people see it, it’s evidence that puberty blockers, used properly, are safe for trans people to use.
Hopefully this study isn’t just ignored.
#Science #LGBTQ+ #HumanRights
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Hopefully this study isn’t just ignored.
#Science #LGBTQ+ #HumanRights
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Bone Accrual During Puberty Suppression and Gender-Affirming Therapy in Transgender Adolescents
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates changes in bone mass in transgender and gender-diverse adolescents following gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist treatment with or without gender-...
jamanetwork.com
August 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
March 6, 2026 at 10:32 AM
December 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“The voices that matter most – trans young people, their families, the clinicians who work with them and trans health experts in Aotearoa – have been clear: access to puberty blockers is crucial.”
Young trans people need access to transition healthcare. We must listen to them, not to transphobes.
Young trans people need access to transition healthcare. We must listen to them, not to transphobes.
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The trail will involve 220 children.
Meanwhile 3000 another children seeking health care for their gender dysphoria will be placed on an ‘observational’ study.
The old ‘watch and wait’ is how Alice was treated. Although this time there might be someone actually watching, this is not health care.🧵
Meanwhile 3000 another children seeking health care for their gender dysphoria will be placed on an ‘observational’ study.
The old ‘watch and wait’ is how Alice was treated. Although this time there might be someone actually watching, this is not health care.🧵
Puberty Blocker clinical trials to begin
on the NHS
- The trial will involve around 220 children under 16
- Young people will “undergo intensive medical and psychological screening”, including Gillick competency evaluation
- Trial: Group 1 will get PBs straight away vs Group 2, 12 months later
on the NHS
- The trial will involve around 220 children under 16
- Young people will “undergo intensive medical and psychological screening”, including Gillick competency evaluation
- Trial: Group 1 will get PBs straight away vs Group 2, 12 months later
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM