NHS trust in London.The highly anticipated judgment on Tuesday concerned legal action taken by 23-year-old Keira Bell against the service – the only one of its kind for England and Wales.Bell, a former patient, argued she had been too young to consent to the medical treatment overseen by the GIDS that began her female-to-male transition as a teenager.In a 36-page ruling, the court concluded that children under the age of 16 considering gender reassignment are unlikely to be mature enough to give informed consent to be prescribed puberty-blocking drugs, in effect curtailing medical intervention for under-16s with gender dysphoria.“There will be enormous difficulties in a child under 16 understanding and weighing up this information and.