Here’s an excerpt from a CNN “news report” on the British NHS’s decision to double down on its ban on puberty blockers for minors.
Gender-affirming care is medically necessary, evidence-based care that uses a multidisciplinary approach to help a person transition from their assigned gender — the one the person was designated at birth — to their affirmed gender — the gender by which one wants to be known.
Puberty blocking is a noninvasive therapy that can be reversed. Doctors inject a compound or use an implant that mimics the actions of a puberty-stimulating hormone that is released in the brain known as gonadotropin-releasing hormone. The compound makes the pituitary gland less sensitive to that hormone and, in doing so, it essentially pauses puberty. Puberty starts again after the drugs are stopped. [Emphasis added]
These activist assertions have always been out of place in news stories, but given the concessions made even by insiders within the trans medical industry, this is indefensible journalistic malpractice.