Submitted on Tuesday 8th March 2022
Rejected on Monday 14th March 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
allow trans people at the average age for puberty to take HRT
based on the average age for puberty within cis people of that gender (~12 for males and ~11 for females) to allow trans children of that same age to begin taking hormone replacement therapy (which would recreate many of the effects of a puberty, allowing a trans child to go through the correct one
1. this would help alleviate suffering for many children
2. watching their peers go through puberty while they cannot (or even have to go through the puberty of their assigned gender) can be very distressing for those children
3. the argument of "what if they regret it" doesn't really work, considering it is an insanely small amount (source: https://www.gendergp.com/detransition-facts/)
4. it would purely make people's lives better, for literally no cost, refusing it is just causing suffering
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.
Decisions about prescribing hormone replacement therapy are a matter for individual clinicians, not the UK Government or Parliament.
You can find out more about NHS provision of hormone replacement therapy for children here: www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/treatment/
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