The puberty blocker trials cannot be justified

The UK government is preparing to experiment on healthy children to investigate a belief it cannot even define.

First do no harm. It’s a neat summary of the ethics of the Hippocratic Oath, and one that doctors generally abide by so long as their names don’t end with ‘Crippen’, ‘Shipman’ or ‘Mengele’. Specifically, we might look to the line: ‘I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients…