The High Court has ruled a ban on puberty blockers introduced by the Conservative government using emergency legislation was lawful. Campaign group TransActual, and a young person who cannot be named, made a bid to challenge the decision of now-shadow health secretary Victoria Atkins to impose a so-called “banning order” on puberty blockers. The treatment, which suppresses the natural production of sex hormones to delay puberty, has proved controversial with Health Secretary Wes Streeting later saying he was “treading cautiously” in his decision amid “lots of fear and anxiety”. At a hearing to…