69 shares Keira Bell outside the Royal Courts of Justice in central London. The 23-year-old, who began taking puberty blockers when she was 16 before 'detransitioning', brought legal action against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the UK's only gender identity development service for children NHS child gender clinic that faced court over use of puberty-blockers is rated 'inadequate' by CQC An NHS trust which faced court for giving children puberty-blocking drugs has been rated inadequate by the UK's health regulator, after inspectors found vulnerable young people 'were waiting too long for treatment'. The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust was told by the Care Quality Commission it needed to significantly improve its services and waiting times, after it found more than 4,600 young people on the waiting list - with some waiting more than two years for their first appointment.