Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

America's Congress will vote today on legislation intended to bring American-listed Chinese companies into line on financial accounting.

We examine the risks to those firms, the law's geopolitical dimensions, and what it all means for stateside investors.

And disco polo isn't what it sounds like.

It's a genre of 1980s Polish music once relegated to rural wedding bandstands.

Now it's surging back onto the national scene

and the country's populist leadership is all too happy to dance along to it.

But first...

Britain's High Court issued a landmark verdict yesterday on the medical treatment of children

who want to change sex. It ruled that those under the age of 16 can only be given

puberty blockers if they understand the treatment they're facing.

Puberty blockers are drugs given to some children with gender dysphoria, temporarily stopping their bodies from developing.

I'm delighted at the judgment of the court today.

There was a judgment that will protect vulnerable people.

I wish it had been made for me

before I embarked on the devastating experiment of puberty blockers. My life would be very different

today. The case was brought by Kira Bell, a 23-year-old woman, and by the unnamed mother of an

autistic teenager who's on the waiting list for treatment. Ms. Bell had been given

puberty blockers at the age of 16 by the Tavistock and Portman Trust, which runs Britain's only

specialist youth gender identity clinic. She went on to have a double mastectomy before later

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