{"id":149653,"date":"2025-11-23T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/149653\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:21:11","slug":"dame-sue-bagshaw-puberty-blockers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/149653\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Sue Bagshaw: Puberty blockers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the government put the brakes on the use of puberty blockers. The drugs delay the onset of puberty in children and young people experiencing gender dysphoria.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Simeon Brown said the changes were about ensuring treatments are safe and carefully managed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Youth health expert Dame Sue Bagshaw talks to Paddy about what this will mean for those young people affected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4NBLUYF_126742633_l_normal_none_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Back to school. Two cute asian child girls with school bag holding hand and walk together in the school\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: 123RF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week the government put the brakes on the use of puberty blockers. The drugs delay the onset&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[48,47,134,524,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-149653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-podcasts","17":"tag-public-radio","18":"tag-radio-new-zealand","19":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}