People who are against the use of puberty blockers nearly always cite the fact that the vast majority children who get them for gender-related reasons
I really don't feel like going and reading that garbage again, but iirc that was actually a big part of the ruling. The judge said that because most people who get puberty blockers eventually go on to get HRT, the decision to get puberty blockers is actually a massive life-changing decision and not something that can be reversed later on with relatively little consequence. She also kept complaining that they haven't collected data on every random thing she could think of (e.g. what percentage of people on puberty blockers are autistic) and inferred from that that it's actually a highly experimental treatment.
Everything about this is just so outrageous. The fact that they got to cherrypick two highly atypical people to bring the case - a detransitioner and a parent trying to stop their kid from transitioning - while no trans people or organizations were allowed to intervene. The fact that the sole defendant (the part of the NHS that provides gender services to kids) is not exactly fully on board with trans people and failed to vigorously defend themselves, e.g. they declined to argue that parents could consent on behalf of their kids even if the kids themselves can't. The fact that the judge who wrote the ruling is the daughter of a fucking baron and went to an exclusive private school.
And supposedly some of the people involved in bringing the case were mainly motivated by trying to weaken the principle that kids can get medical treatment without their parents' approval or knowledge, provided that they're capable of understanding it. Now they've successfully argued that puberty blockers are just too fucking complicated for 15-year-olds to understand (and even 17-year-olds, unless they have a judge helping them), they're probably going to try and make the same arguments about abortion, contraception, STI tests and who knows what else.
I really don't feel like going and reading that garbage again, but iirc that was actually a big part of the ruling. The judge said that because most people who get puberty blockers eventually go on to get HRT, the decision to get puberty blockers is actually a massive life-changing decision and not something that can be reversed later on with relatively little consequence. She also kept complaining that they haven't collected data on every random thing she could think of (e.g. what percentage of people on puberty blockers are autistic) and inferred from that that it's actually a highly experimental treatment.
Everything about this is just so outrageous. The fact that they got to cherrypick two highly atypical people to bring the case - a detransitioner and a parent trying to stop their kid from transitioning - while no trans people or organizations were allowed to intervene. The fact that the sole defendant (the part of the NHS that provides gender services to kids) is not exactly fully on board with trans people and failed to vigorously defend themselves, e.g. they declined to argue that parents could consent on behalf of their kids even if the kids themselves can't. The fact that the judge who wrote the ruling is the daughter of a fucking baron and went to an exclusive private school.
And supposedly some of the people involved in bringing the case were mainly motivated by trying to weaken the principle that kids can get medical treatment without their parents' approval or knowledge, provided that they're capable of understanding it. Now they've successfully argued that puberty blockers are just too fucking complicated for 15-year-olds to understand (and even 17-year-olds, unless they have a judge helping them), they're probably going to try and make the same arguments about abortion, contraception, STI tests and who knows what else.