Title: "We're taking this to court": Doctors Are Fighting New Zealand's Puberty Blocker Ban
Link To: Article[/b] 🔗 [Link: erininthemorning.com/p/were-taking-this-to-court-doctors%5Bb/] Author: S Baum
Date: 02 December 2025
"Medical professionals are resisting New Zealand's ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers for transgender youth, violating the international best practices for treating gender dysphoria."
"If unchallenged, the ban will go into effect on Dec. 19 and remain in place until the United Kingdom finishes its own landmark study on puberty blockers, which likely will not be complete until 2031."
"These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence... We will not let transgender children in Aotearoa be subjected to harm just to win a war on woke."
"PATHA is filing a judicial review... The measure says it outlaws prescribing puberty blockers to those with gender dysphoria as opposed to for gender dysphoria and fines doctors who violate the order $500."
"The Te Kāhui Tika Tangata Human Rights Commission said the ban represents a serious infringement on human rights."
"Critics of the Cass Review have condemned the report for weaponizing methodological flaws, unsubstantiated claims and an evidentiary double standard to undermine care."
"Puberty blockers are safe, effective... Only a small number of young people in Aotearoa are prescribed reversible pubertal suppression, but for those who need it, the negative impacts of this regulation will be huge."
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