Kemi Badenoch calls on Wes Streeting to stop puberty blocker trial

But Ms Badenoch has joined other voices in opposition to the study, saying the trial is “born of the discredited, yet still seemingly entrenched, belief in some quarters that a child can be ‘born in the wrong body’ or go through the ‘wrong’ puberty, and that a normal puberty can be ‘paused’ without causing irreparable harm to children”.