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Campaigner launches bid to ban cross-sex hormones for under-18s

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Wes Streeting is being threatened with legal action if he does not ban sale of cross-sex hormones to under-18s.

Lawyers acting for three people - including campaigner Keira Bell - have written to Streeting urging him to introduce a ban.

Ms Bell says her life has been "flipped upside down" by taking the drugs that have some irreversible effects.

In December the health secretary announced an indefinite ban on puberty-suppressing drugs.

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informal

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English

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45

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