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Dame Sue Bagshaw: Otago University Senior Clinical Lecturer on the government banning puberty blockers · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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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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  Speaker 1: at the University of a Tiger, christ Church. For more
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