Will NHS Scotland follow suit and ban puberty blockers?

The decision by NHS England to end the prescription of puberty blockers to minors at gender identity clinics will be a source of relief to those who have fought a long, hard and unpopular campaign against this practice. When these people, including whistle-blowing clinicians, feminists, gay rights activists and concerned parents, first stuck their heads above the parapet, the entire political establishment was in lockstep behind the gender ideology. The Tories and Labour. The NHS and the media. The lawyers and the academics. The third sector and the corporate world. Many of these institutions are still chugging down the Kool-Aid but the new regulations represent a significant victory for medical ethics and human rights.

There is always a ‘but’ and in this case it refers to Scotland. NHS Scotland is a separate organisation to NHS England. In practice, that means that clinical policy north of the border is sometimes at odds with that in England.