Gender reassignment: High Court to say whether NHS guidance on hormone blockers can be legally challenged

The High Court in London has been asked to give the go ahead for a challenge to the legality of NHS guidelines on administering hormone blocking drugs to children at the UK’s only specialist NHS service for young people seeking gender reassignment.

Susan Evans, a former psychiatric nurse at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust’s gender identity development service (GIDS), and “Mrs A,” the mother of a 15 year old girl with autism who is on the service’s waiting list, have filed papers asking for a judicial review of the guidelines. They argue that the …