{"id":3354,"date":"2025-11-20T23:27:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:27:45","slug":"new-zealand-bans-puberty-blockers-for-young-transgender-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/11\/20\/new-zealand-bans-puberty-blockers-for-young-transgender-people\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Zealand announced a ban on new prescriptions of puberty-blocking drugs for young transgender people, a move reflecting a growing global debate over access to gender-affirming healthcare. Health officials cited concerns over adolescents seeking transition, while current users will not be affected. Critics warned that this restriction could severely worsen the mental health and well-being of trans and gender-diverse youth. They argue that treatment decisions should remain with doctors, parents, and young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>November 19, 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/19\/new-zealand-bans-new-prescriptions-of-puberty-blockers-for-young-transgender-people\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand announced a ban on new prescriptions of puberty-blocking drugs for young transgender people, a move reflecting a growing global debate over access to gender-affirming healthcare. Health officials cited concerns over adolescents seeking transition, while current users will not be affected. Critics warned that this restriction could severely worsen the mental health and well-being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":3400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3357,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}