High Court has ruled. In a landmark case, Keira Bell, 23, brought legal action against Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the UK’s only gender identity development service for children.
Ms Bell, who has since detransitioned, began taking puberty blockers at 16, and went on to take cross-sex hormones and undergo a double mastectomy.
A second legal challenge was also put forward by Mrs A, the mother of an autistic girl, 16, on the waiting list for treatment.
Both Ms Bell and Mrs A asked the High Court to rule it unlawful for trans children to be prescribed hormone blockers without an order from the court that declared it in their ‘best interests’ to have the treatment.