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Speaker 1: Government's banned puberty block of pbscriptions for new patients it's

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Speaker 1: under eighteen's those who are transgender. Ban comes into effect

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Speaker 1: from the nineteenth and December last until the UK finishes

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Speaker 1: clinical trials into the drugs. They say this is about safety.

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Speaker 1: Dame Sue Bagshaw is School of Medicine, University of Otago,

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Speaker 1: christ Church. Dame Sue, good morning, good morning, Good to

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Speaker 1: have you on the show. Are these drugs safe?

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Speaker 2: Well, the experience we've had so far of the last

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Speaker 2: ten twenty years has been that they're very safe, They're reversible,

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Speaker 2: and I think obviously we always need to be aware

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Speaker 2: of safety. We always need to be aware of the

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Speaker 2: pros and cons of ani medicine we've prescribed. But it

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Speaker 2: seems sad that politicians get involved in something that really

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Speaker 2: should be a health issue.

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Speaker 1: Is the health issue being sorted though? I mean, are

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Speaker 1: we giving out drugs that aren't safe? Why it was

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Speaker 1: the UK doing this study into the safety of them.

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Speaker 1: Why around bureaucrats saying we can't say that they are safe.

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Speaker 2: That's a very good question, and I wondered about myself

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Speaker 2: because we have no evidence either way. What we do

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Speaker 2: we have some evidence, so that they're pretty safe and

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Speaker 2: we have had no disasters so far compared with things

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Speaker 2: like aspirin, which is pretty unsafe and you can buy

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Speaker 2: that over the counter. So, you know, I think it's

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Speaker 2: a it's a worry that we're getting political influences on

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Speaker 2: what could be a very life saving medicine.

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Speaker 1: So the Ministry of Education, the sorry, the Ministry of

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Speaker 1: Health here in New Zealand, the UK, you know, the

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Speaker 1: NH is the concerns that have been raised by government

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Speaker 1: bureaucrats around the world. You're saying they're being politicized.

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Speaker 2: I do gender is a social intent and I think

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Speaker 2: social influences are being brought to bear names.

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Speaker 1: Sue Bergshaw, appreciate your time this morning, School of Medicine

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