figures shown to the court in 2020 indicated that, in the year 2019–20, just ninety-five people under the age of sixteen started using blockers and only twenty-two under the age of thirteen. According to GIDS’ published figures, in the financial year 2018–19 it received 2,406 new referrals; of these, only 230 (9.6 per cent) were aged ten or under at the time they were referred. This means that, even before the Bell case, over 90 per cent of children who were referred to GIDS had no practical chance of ever starting blockers before their puberty began anyway.
