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

laws geopolitical dimensions and what it all means for state-side 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 judgement of the court today. There was a judgement that will protect

vulnerable people. I wish it had been made for me before I embarked on the devastating

and 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 Tava Stock and Portman Trust, which runs Britain's only specialist youth

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

back to a woman. I joined this case with no hesitation, knowing what I knew about what

had and has been going on the gender identity clinics. My hope was that outside of the

noise of the culture was the court would shine a light on this harmful experiment on vulnerable

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