How dare they. https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/amnesty-international-uk-and-liberty-joint-statement-puberty-blockers
Amnesty International UK and Liberty joint statement on puberty blockers

Joint statement following High Court ruling that children under 16 are unlikely to be able to give informed consent to undergo treatment with puberty-blocking drug

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/amnesty-international-uk-and-liberty-joint-statement-puberty-blockers
What expertise do @AmnestyUK and @libertyhq in medicine?
What evidence do they have that GIDS didn't

This is what the court said
How dare they call parents that don't think their children need their healthy body fixed "unsupportive"?
Have they even read the judgment?

It's not about parental consent.
How dare they?

Amnesty. This is about children

Children cannot consent to sex.

How can children consent to a pathway to sterilisation and loss of sexual function?

This is not the autonomy of children @KateAllenAI
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