Under the counter hormones for the kids:

The former CEO of trans youth charity Mermaids is launching a private clinic that will “exploit a legal loophole” to bypass the ban on puberty blockers, [i news] can reveal.

Susie Green, who left the controversial charity in 2022, will open Anne Health this weekend to provide a range of medical, pharmaceutical, and psychological support services – including puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and counselling – to transgender people of all ages.

But puberty blockers are not “medical services” for transgender people.

But the loopholes that Ms Green’s clinic will use to provide medication to young people raise questions about the effectiveness, scope, and robustness of the government’s ban. i understands that DHSC officials are willing to explore the possibility of criminal sanctions against anyone involved in the supply of puberty blockers.

Maybe science can come up with just plain adulthood blockers, so that people can remain 11 years old for 60 or 70 extra years. No doubt they will have some harsh side effects but it will be worth it.

The clinic will defer to treatment protocols established by WPATH, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, she said.

WPATH is not without controversy. It is a membership-funded advisory body that provides guidance on transgender health to a wide range of organisations, but has come under fire recently for using low quality sources. Ms Green co-authored the most recent version of its guidelines.

Cool, so she’s promising to defer to her own guidelines. How very responsible of her.