Puberty blockers are ‘completely off-label’: Push for Aus to ban drug used on children

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Child and Adolescent Psychologist Clare Rowe says puberty blockers are “completely off-label” as a push continues to grow for Australia to ban the drug which is used on children.

Ms Rowe joined Sky News host Chris Kenny to discuss the new research released on puberty blockers.

“For those who don’t know, puberty blockers are a treatment for gender dysphoria, they’re along a line of treatments that progress from a social transition … puberty blockers are the next step, and essentially what they do is block the onset of puberty,” she said.

“One of the things I think that the layperson or the general public don’t know is that you would assume that any drug given to any patient under something like a national scheme or in a national accredited hospital has research clinical trials behind it.

“These do not, puberty blockers are completely what they call ‘off-label’.”
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