PUBERTY BLOCKERS STILL GIVEN TO KIDS
‘Weak evidence’ supporting such gender treatment
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KINAHAN cartel mobster Ross Browning’s plush countryside pad, which was seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau, will be a “hard sell” when it goes to auction, it’s claimed.
Luxury Chestnut Lodge in Garristown, north Co Dublin, as well as a brick house, a large warehouse, three stables and an expansive yard, were
PUBERTY blockers are still prescribed to children in Ireland with gender dysphoria, the HSE has confirmed.
taken into CAB possession as part of a €1.4million case against Browning and several of his family members.
The pad where Browning lived with partner Sinead Mulhall features an “escape hatch” leading to the warehouse and was concealed with a hanging carpet. When CAB raided in 2018 a black Honda motorbike was at the foot of the hatch.
The online public auction will take place on May 25 with an ‘advised minimum value of’ €550,000.
A source said a lack of planning permissions and the nature of the former owner “might put people off”. which will develop guidance for those working in gender healthcare.
“While this process is underway, the current HSE pathway for gender questioning young people which involves GPs, CAMHS, specialist gender psychology and psychiatry services and paediatric Endocrinology multidisciplinary teams will remain in place.
“Puberty blockers are prescribed in a very small number of cases and the recent NHS announcement has not changed the approach in Ireland.”
They said Cass’s report will be reviewed as part of the ongoing work.
“Work will be informed by best evidence on clinical care for individuals who express gender incongruence or dysphoria and emerging and evolving international evidence, including the just-published Cass report.”
The Cass report pointed to the lack of “good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress”. Meanwhile, the HSE said last night it plans to study a British report recommending further restrictions on puberty blockers for teenage children.
Health chiefs said the document will be examined as part of the development of a new clinical programme for gender healthcare over the next two years
The HSE said while its programme is being worked on, patients will continue to be treated by the endocrinology service in adult and paediatric centres in the Ireland East Hospital Group and Children’s Health Ireland.