Instead of going ahead with the PB trial Wes Streeting Department of Health and Social Care should #firstdonoharm Create the evidence base by getting hold of the missing data and securing existing, long-term outcomes data on former child patients from adult gender services.

This is good news, assuming it’s done well. Linking a piece I wrote earlier this year about why labels sometimes make symptoms worse. welldoing.org/article/teenag…

An interesting study in light of the overdiagnosis inquiry. It finds that when everything else is equal, students who have a diagnostic label (including ADHD and autism) are given worse test scores, behavioural assessments and personality evaluations.

"The more we pathologise ordinary distress, the harder it becomes to identify those who are genuinely unwell. A system that labels everyone serves no one." – An important point. One downstream impact of overdiagnosis is resource dilution for those most in need of it.

NEW: I’ve taken a deep dive into the new puberty blockers trial, exploring how we got here, what it will and won’t answers, with a sprinkling of new revelations too. With contributions from Hilary Cass, trial team members (past & present) and MPs newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…

This point from the Peggie judgment can easily be refuted, and it no doubt will be in any appeal. From the Everyday Cancellation report using government data (available on Sex Matters website):