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Scott, this story just broke this week, and I think it's fascinating and worth discussing.

This is an ABC, and the title was that Britain indefinitely bans puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria.

So the British government on Wednesday, they banned puberty blockers again for children, not adults.

After independent experts found there was an unacceptable safety risk in prescribing the medication.

This will be revisited in 2027.

So that's for about two years or so.

It will prevent prescribing medications that can suppress or pause puberty in children with

generisphoria.

So the ideal was that these would give children more time to kind of consider options of how they would address their generisphoria.

And the British government has taken purity blockers off the table.

So the announcement comes after a judge this summer upheld an emergency ban in a ruling and said the treatment was potentially harmful.

The emergency ban was put in place by the center-right government, which is interesting.

And now it's been extended by the center-left government.

So there seems to be more agreement moving forward on this. The health secretary West Streeting said, we need to act with caution and care when it comes to this vulnerable group

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