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Wish that this generally good Grace Lavery piece foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/15/uk-transphobia-transgender-court-ruling-puberty-blockers/ hadn't opened by stating that Bell v Tavistock rules "no children under the age of 16 can meet the standard for informed consent". It's not true & it overstates the judgement in a harmful way. The judgement:Permalink Look on archive.org
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Link to the judgement: judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Bell-v-Tavistock-Judgment.pdf Link to a legal summary of it: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/law-and-criminology/2020/12/01/bell-v-tavistock-a-quick-explainer/Permalink Look on archive.org
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It's the kind of ruling where the public perception of the ruling matters more than the actual facts of the judgement. So the fact that public perception of the ruling has coalesced to something a bit stronger than the ruling is... bad. And hard to escape, now.Look on archive.org