{"id":71150,"date":"2021-05-12T17:47:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T21:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=71150"},"modified":"2021-05-12T17:47:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T21:47:38","slug":"trans-children-swedish-university-clinic-stops-giving-hormones-and-puberty-blockers-to-children-under-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/trans-children-swedish-university-clinic-stops-giving-hormones-and-puberty-blockers-to-children-under-16","title":{"rendered":"Swedish university clinic stops giving hormones and puberty blockers to children under 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sweden’s Karolinska University Hospital has announced that it will no longer treat gender dysphoria in children under the age of 16 with puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones. The use of the funds ended on April 1, 2021, and the ban had previously been announced in a non-dated statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision followed the publication of a study by the Swedish Health Technology and Social Services Impact Assessment Authority in December 2019. The study concluded that the evidence of long-term effects of hormonal treatment was inadequate and accompanied by significant health risks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“These treatments are potentially associated with far-reaching and irreversible negative consequences such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, infertility, increased risk of cancer and thrombosis.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reasons for the rapid increase in the number of cases in recent years were also critically questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, Stockholm University Hospital has stopped all hormone treatments for children under the age of 16. As for children between 16 and 18, hormonal treatments are only permitted if a comprehensive explanation of the possible risks of the treatment has been provided. In addition, the child’s level of maturity must allow for informed consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision of the Stockholm Hospital also took into account the ruling of the UK High Court in December last year, on which IFamNews reported<\/a>. The court decided that, as a general rule, children under the age of 16 cannot give informed consent to trans-affirmative drug and surgical treatments. These forms of treatment were merely “experimental<\/a>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hospital says “these treatments are potentially associated with far-reaching and irreversible negative consequences”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":71539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"Hospital says \"these treatments are potentially associated with far-reaching and irreversible negative consequences\".","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"single_blog_custom":"","sidebar":"","second_sidebar":"","share_position":"","share_float_style":"","post_date_format":"","post_date_format_custom":"","post_reading_time_wpm":"","zoom_button_out_step":"1","zoom_button_in_step":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"","single_post_gallery_size":""}],"trending_post_position":"","trending_post_label":"","sponsored_post_label":"","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[804,510,805],"tags":[10327,9128,10328,10324,10326,10323,10325,10322,10329],"class_list":["post-71150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-family","category-foreground","tag-cross-sex-hormones","tag-gender-transition","tag-hormone-treatment","tag-hormones","tag-karolinska-hospital","tag-puberty-blockers-2","tag-sweden","tag-transgender-8","tag-underage-children"],"yoast_head":"\nSwedish university clinic stops giving hormones and puberty blockers to children under 16 - IFN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/trans-children-swedish-university-clinic-stops-giving-hormones-and-puberty-blockers-to-children-under-16\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Swedish university clinic stops giving hormones and puberty blockers to children under 16\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hospital says "these treatments are potentially associated with far-reaching and irreversible negative consequences".\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/trans-children-swedish-university-clinic-stops-giving-hormones-and-puberty-blockers-to-children-under-16\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"IFN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iFamNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-12T21:47:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-12T21:47:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vaccination-2722937_1280.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"853\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Johann R. 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