https://archive.ph/2026.01.27-065714/https://www.newstatesman.com/investigation/2026/01/nhs-puberty-blocker-trial-information-ignores-or-minimises-critically-important-risks "Public opinion appears to be against it. Polling by Whitestone Insight showed the majority of adults were not in favour, including among both current Labour supporters and those who voted for the party in the 2024. The government faces a legal threat calling for the trial to be stopped.
More than 380 clinicians, including some who specialise in evidence-based medicine and have helped write national clinical guidelines, have written to the Health Secretary Wes Streeting expressing their disagreement that the trial should take place in its current guise, or before other less invasive research avenues have been pursued first. The signatories, which include 220 doctors and surgeons, expressed “grave disquiet”.
Some are experts in trial design who are critical of this particular trial’s approach. Others believe no trial could be ethical, among them clinicians who worked with children at Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (Gids), which closed in March 2024."
