{"id":10631,"date":"2021-01-09T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10631"},"modified":"2021-03-26T23:06:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T06:06:47","slug":"a-live-experiment-on-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10631","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A live experiment on children&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Testimony that led a High Court judge to ban NHS&#8217;s Tavistock clinic from giving puberty blocking drugs to youngsters as young as 10 who want to change sex<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sanchez Manning<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"153\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/child002-1.jpg\" alt=\"&#039;A live experiment on children&#039;\" class=\"wp-image-10633\"\/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinnanya\/\">Quinn Dombrowski<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;shocking evidence that convinced a High Court judge to effectively ban an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\">NHS<\/a> gender clinic from giving puberty-blocking drugs to children can be revealed for the first time today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until now a court order has prevented the testimony of eminent physicians being made public. But lawyers for The Mail on Sunday successfully argued there was a significant public interest in disclosing the material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the devastating statements that can now be divulged is one from Professor Christopher Gillberg, an expert in child and adolescent psychiatry, who believes prescribing drugs to delay puberty \u2013 a first step in gender treatment \u2013 is a scandal and tantamount to conducting &#8216;a live experiment&#8217; on vulnerable children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;In my years as a physician, I cannot remember an issue of greater significance for the practice of medicine,&#8217; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;We have left established evidence-based clinical practice and are using powerful life-altering medication for a vulnerable group of adolescents and children based upon a belief.&#8217; . . . <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9130157\/The-physicians-testimony-led-High-Court-judge-ban-child-puberty-blocker-drugs.html\">continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testimony that led a High Court judge to ban NHS&#8217;s Tavistock clinic from giving puberty blocking drugs to youngsters as young as 10 who want to change sex Daily Mail Sanchez Manning The&nbsp;shocking evidence that convinced a High Court judge to effectively ban an NHS gender clinic from giving puberty-blocking drugs to children can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10631\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;A live experiment on children&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,1695,186,217,9,757],"tags":[3965,4031,3966,4032,4034,3964,1697],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-10631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-reconfiguration","category-drugs","category-human-experimentation","category-lawsuits","category-news","category-united-kingdom","tag-christopher-gillberg","tag-keira-bell","tag-polly-carmichael","tag-sophie-scott","tag-stephanie-davies-arai","tag-stephen-levine","tag-tavistock-and-portman-nhs-foundation-trust"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>&#039;A live experiment on children&#039; - 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