Vaimoana MasePasifika Editor·NZ Herald·16 Jul, 2026 05:00 PM4 mins to readA study showed gender-diverse young people who had been on puberty blockers had lower rates of anxiety, depression and suicidality, the NZ Medical Journal report says.The Government’s attempt to ban puberty blockers for gender-diverse young people would be both unethical and harmful, a group of concerned doctors says.
Their views have been published in the paper A clinical ethics approach to the use of puberty blockers in gender incongruence in today’s New Zealand Medical
