Submitted on Friday 24th April 2020
Rejected on Monday 6th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Prevent lowering the age of treatment for transgender people.
Liz Truss has revealed that she wants to review the Gender Recognition Act and change the age of treatment for transgender youth and individuals.
Currently, only people aged 18 or over undergo any surgeries or ‘sex changes’ and only people aged 16 or over are prescribed cross-sex hormones.
Minors (under 16) only receive hormone blockers which put a pause on puberty and are reversible. Puberty is not reversible and can cause distress and dysphoria to transgender youth, which may even see an increase in suicides within this group.
Lowering the age that transgender youth can receive professional, medical advice and treatment will have detrimental effects while allowing them treatment will continue to be beneficial.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
Uphold current legal protections for transgender individuals and under 18s: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/318175
Do not ban gender transition treatments for under 18s: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/318025
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