2024
Italy’s bioethics committee said the evidence on puberty blockers for minors is too weak.
What the law allows
Medical care for minorsRestricted
Restricted: CNB (22 Nov 2024, published Dec 2024) found evidence for triptorelin in minors with gender dysphoria insufficient; urged Ministry-funded independent trials and hoped prescriptions would sit within those trials.
CNB opinion on triptorelin (22 Nov 2024)
Schools — curriculumSchools proposed
Proposed: Camera C.1885 (“teorie del gender”) is before the Camera.
Camera dei Deputati — risoluzione 7-00203
Key dates2024
2024: Restricted: CNB (22 Nov 2024, published Dec 2024) found evidence for triptorelin in minors with gender dysphoria insufficient; urged Ministry-funded independent trials and hoped prescriptions would sit within those trials.
CNB opinion on triptorelin (22 Nov 2024)
Official sources
CNB research-framed guidance on triptorelin for minors.
Full official record
Italy’s National Bioethics Committee (CNB), responding to a Ministry of Health question on triptorelin (a puberty blocker) for gender dysphoria in minors, found the scientific evidence insufficient. In its 22 November 2024 opinion (published December 2024), the CNB urged the Ministry to fund higher-quality independent clinical trials and hoped prescriptions would occur within those Ministry-promoted trials. It also recommended multidisciplinary assessment and that puberty blockers be considered only after psychological/psychotherapeutic (and where relevant psychiatric) pathways have not been effective. This is official bioethics guidance.
The CNB answer is limited to the Ministry’s question on the ethical use of triptorelin in minors with a gender-dysphoria diagnosis. AIFA Determina 21756/2019 still lists selected off-label NHS use after multidisciplinary diagnosis. Government bill C.2575 would regulate — not ban — puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors.
Schools detail
Camera proposal C.1885 would forbid school plans of study from inserting educational objectives founded on so-called “teorie del gender,” defined as theories that gender identity is independent of, variable from, or reversible relative to sex characteristics. The official Chamber page records a proposal, not an enacted statute.