In allowing gender dysphoric children to ‘decide’ treatment for themselves, is society abdicating its duty of care?
Last week, in a landmark judgment, the Court of Appeal overturned the controversial 2020 ruling in the Keira Bell case, which had found that gender dysphoric children under 16 were unlikely to be mature enough to be able to give informed consent to receiving puberty blocking drugs. Their Lordships disagreed, ruling that the court lacked competence…