LGBTQ+ councillor quits Labour over puberty blockers ban: ‘We have let the trans community down’

An Exeter City Council member has resigned from the Labour Party following what they describe as the “grossly discriminatory decision” by the UK government to ban the use of puberty blockers.

A temporary ban on puberty blockers being prescribed to treat what the government describe as “gender incongruence or dysphoria in under 18s” was extended in August 2024 by Health Secretary Wes Streeting before being made indefinite in December 2024.

The ban came in the wake of the controversial Cass Review; an analysis of the gender care services for children and young people in the UK, which was published in April. NHS England commissioned paediatric expert Dr Hilary Cass to head the review in 2020, in response to the sharp rise in referrals to what was then England’s only youth

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