That children under 16, who say they want to change gender, are unlikely to be able to give their informed consent to treatment with drugs that block puberty. The case was brought by a young woman who regretted her decision to have treatment, and argued that a court order should be needed for children to take the medication. Transgender rights campaigners have criticised the decision, and the only nhs clinic to offer the treatment to children says it will appeal against the ruling. Our social Affairs Correspondent alison holt has more details. For keira bell, emerging from the high court, this judgement was about decisions made as a teenager that started her on the road from transitioning from female to male. She argued she was too young to understand the impact of that treatment. The court agreed more checks are needed. Im delighted at the judgement of the court today. It was a judgement that will protect vulnerable people. I wish it had been made for me before i embarked on the devastating experiment of puberty blockers. At 16, keira was desperate to be a boy. She was given drugs to delay puberty and then male hormones. Clinicians say for some children this is the right move, but keira believes it was a mistake for her. The discussions were very brief and there was no real investigation into why i had gender dysphoria feelings and how i got to that stage. I spoke briefly of depression and anxiety, but again, it was kind of assumed by everyone that transitioning would alleviate that. Her case was against the tavistock, the uks only gender Identity Clinic for children. It argued that puberty blocking drugs are only prescribed if a child can give informed consent, but todaysjudgement ruled it was doubtful a child under 16 could really understand the long term implications, and for 16 and 17 year olds, the courts may also need to be involved. This mother, who wants to remain anonymous, was also involved in bringing the action. Her daughter, who has autism, is on the clinic waiting list. The long term effects of puberty blockers, theyre not really known. Theyre given for extended periods of time at a time when your developing your body needs to be exposed to hormones. It doesntjust halt the physical development, it halts the psychological, social and Emotional Development of a child. In a statement, the tavistock says the trust is disappointed by todaysjudgement and we understand the outcome is likely to cause anxiety for patients and their families. It continues, we are working to provide support for patients concerned about the impact on their care. Its a very important issue and im happy to be here. And 18 year old sonia calls the judgement disheartening and wrong. She says young people who want to transition like her already face long waits for specialist help. Its taking more than two or three years just to get a first appointment, and thats before you even get to the prospects of discussing hormone replacement therapy and puberty blockers. For me, personally, it took a huge toll on my Mental Health because i couldnt see light at the end of the tunnel. I had no hope. Whilst its considering the implications of todays judgement, the tavistock says it is suspending all new referrals of under 16s for drug treatments. Alison holt, bbc news. Now its time for the travel show. This week on the travel show. The gadgets that could get us back on the road. New solutions for ancient problems. This thing is so much better than any of us can do. Here he comes and Kangaroo Island bounces back. Do you want any milk . It has been awesome to see. Yeah, the resilience of the australian wildlife. Hi, welcome to the show, coming to you this week from the eerily quiet London City Airport. Hence why i am allowed to talk to you from the actual runway. Take a look at this. This is bonkers normally this would be buzzing with planes taking off and landing, but as we all know, travel around the world has pretty much stopped. But nevertheless, we are going to do our best to try to keep you all inspired until travel resumes once again. But until then, stick with us and hopefully we will be out on oui adventures very soon. Lets face it. 2020 hasnt been a good year for travel. A year of lockdowns, border closures, and bans. But dont worry because behind the scenes, the travel industry is buzzing with exciting gadgets and innovations to get us all back on the road again. From protective seat design. To covid destroying uv light swords. But the thing with the biggest impact in the short term is testing. And i have come to London City Airport to find out how it could work. There will be a testing regime in place prior to christmas. Testing will take place once you have arrived back into the uk. You will go to a Testing Centre and get tested and if that test is negative, then you will be able to be released from quarantine. However, as the industry, we really do wish to see a departures testing protocol. And what that would mean is that passengers would be tested before they fly. It would mean that a quarantine period when you arrive is no longer required. What are the main challenges you foresee with all of these processes . Capacity is one. If we are requiring to actually test significant numbers of passengers onsite before they fly, we will need to find space to do that. There will need to be trained staff available. We think that is going to take some time, but we are very confident we can do that. And we are hopeful that by next summer, we will be approaching some degree of normality. But as testing, and even vaccinations, become more common, there is a whole load of new questions. Like how do you trust that the person travelling next to you is covid safe . Commonpass is a health pass that lets people securely and privately share their covid status across international borders, whether thats testing or eventually vaccination. The challenge right now is the Current System for ensuring that somebody does not have covid whos sitting next to me or crossing the border is a piece of paper that was got from a lab. Theres no standard format for that paper and it can easily be falsified or even counterfeit. With commonpass, we have a way to know that this is coming from a certified lab. So what happens is when youre preparing to travel, youll say, im flying from London City Airport to new york, youll pull out the commonpass app, it will tell you you have to fulfil particular requirements and when you have fulfilled all those criteria, it generates a qr code, which then you can show at the entrance to the airport, the aircraft or at immigration in the united states. How do you keep peoples personal health data safe . Commonpass is a non profit organisation. We dont actually have access to your data, you control your data, you control who gets to see it, it is basically on your phone and at the source of where the data is. We dont have any access to that, nobody has any access to that. Commonpass is hoping to become available in the new year, but some countries entry requirements dont end at the airport. Take a look at this its a Pretty Simple device, a wristband. Once i put it on. And now it should transmit my location. These kinds of tracking devices have been trialled in several countries to stop people breaking lockdown rules. Theres been an unprecedented rise in all kinds of tracking technology. Around 120 Contact Tracing apps are being used worldwide. You kinda look like a very cautious person to me, sam. So what are your main concerns . My main concerns really are about the speed and proportionality of these new measures. We need to make sure that theyre transparent, held accountable and dont last for any longer than theyre needed. There is a danger, though, isnt there, sam, that we could scare people and overhype this . This whole surveillance thing. Do you think its slightly over the top and were worrying more than we should be . I dont think so, no. I think we need to really be careful that we dont sleepwalk into a surveillance state with tools that arent necessarily effective for fighting back in a Public Health crisis. Its like something out of a sci fi movie. What should you be looking out for, then . So when youre looking at a privacy policy, some of the really important things to look out for is how long your data is being retained for. There should be, under gdpr, certain restrictions on how long a company or a Public Health body can access your information. Theres other things like permissions. If you look at certain apps that will have a lot of permissions that allow the app to read other aspects of your phone, look at your contacts, for example, as well as monitoring what youre doing online. So there are some simple steps to take that will allow you to make sure the app youre downloading is safe. This year has disrupted travel more than anything weve ever known, but as big as the problems are, the solutions too can be brilliant. As long as we stay careful, im hopeful well soon be out there experiencing the world again. Next this week, we are in the swedish capital of stockholm, which is actually made up of 30,000 islands, islets and rocksjutting out into the baltic sea. It means there is a big maritime tradition, which if you know where to look, results in some pretty interesting souvenir shopping. We went to have a look. My name is freddy braun. I am the owner of fartygsmagasinet. Translated, the ships warehouse. We were since many, many years ago, engaged in dismantling ships, taking care of all the beautiful interiors. We started actually with two empty hands and it became like part of myself. Today, there are no longer such ships existing. The few that are left are either museum ships or belonging to some private people. But we knew in advance that there will be a day where they are all gone, so now we consume whatever we have in our warehouse. Here we have a piece of a stay from the cutty sark, including. So it is actually a trophy of a famous ship, i would say next to the titanic the most well known in the whole world. One does not see to it that these things just being brutally destroyed for the future because all these nice interiors, if they would have been ashore in a building they probably would have been protected, but when it came to ships there was nobody interested, so i started to collect, first for my own and gradually i got more and more involved. Good customers are based locally, but more than half of it comes from all over the world. Interior designers, collectors, film companies. I have a few pieces, two smaller figureheads, a few instruments and a few models, which are more close to my heart and are not for sale. 0k. We are onto something totally new next. Or is it something old . Cant make up my mind. Our future of the past series takes a look at some of the amazing new tech scientists are using to uncover, restore and protect humanitys ancient history. We begin in northern guatemala, at the maya Biosphere Reserve. Deep inside this vast rainforest lies the remains of one of the largest mayan cities. Tikal. At its height, maybe around 1500 years ago, it was home to as many as 90,000 people. So we sent amanda to find out how advances in archaeology have uncovered some long buried secrets. One of the Biggest Challenges to archaeologists in the maya Biosphere Reserve is the fact that it is extremely difficult to find or identify structures in a jungle as thick and wild as this one. And that is where a technology that is relatively new to archaeology, lidar, has been transformative. So this hill is supposedly a pyramid. They think it might be maybe as big as the great pyramid, the mundo perdido. It is definitely steep, but it looks like a hill, so it is Pretty Amazing that they are able to find that out through lidar. Yeah, were right here. Mm hmm. So only 10 of tikal has actually been excavated and discovered. Wow. Lidar is a type of Remote Sensing technology that is used to create extraordinarily detailed 3d maps and representations. In the reserve, lidar is being employed in two ways. From aircraft to create topological maps and from hand held scanners to build better 3d models of a particular site or structure. The project that involves beaming lasers from aircraft, the largest Archaeological Survey ever taken in the mayan lowlands, is the initiative of the foundation for maya cultural and natural heritage, pacunam. And what is lidar exactly . What makes it such a great tool . Well, it really strips off the forest canopy, with billions of laser beams that map individually each return, every time they hit something in the surface. And that will give tremendous use for understanding of the forest and the biomass. How many billions of laser beams are actually. . I think our first data said it had 60 billion returns, so that is an incredible amount of data. And how long did it take to collect that . Really only a couple of weeks. It was Something Like eight flights. It is 2,100 Square Kilometres of area that was covered in that amount of time. Well, you obviously have a great understanding of how sophisticated the mayans were, but did the lidar increase that understanding even more . Yes. The lidar showed without any doubt that we totally underestimated their engineering capabilities in terms of landscape, modifications to make the land more sustainable, to irrigate, bring water to places that they could cultivate, to stop erosion. Pretty mind blowing. Thats how i felt. And i thought the mayan were pretty sophisticated already, but not at this scale. One of the sites where lidar has been especially helpful is el zotz. So this was all for one king . Yes. For the first king. This king we know was powerful. We didnt know the extension of the power. Lidar is helping us to recognise everything that this king did to protect him, his family and his legacy, that it was the creation of our dynasty. So a find like this tells you, 0k, there is a king, and then the lidar helps you realise what the whole context is. Yes. The whole landscape and even more just how wealthy and powerful he was. Yes. Than you even knew from this . Everything that they built, we can make more sense of it. When you got that lidar data back and started to see all that stuff and put those pieces together, what did you say, think . It was wonderful, i was like, oh, my god, oh, my god for hours, i was like, oh my god, look at this wow. It is very humbling because you have been mapping and you think you know what you are doing. Right. Yeah. For all of my career and this thing is so much better than any of us can do. And it can do what we do in 20 years in two days. The same work, and it is better. With its extraordinary archaeological sites and wildlife, maya Biosphere Reserve has long been a major draw for travellers to guatemala. It is thanks to lidar, however, that we now understand its history and its importance even more. And if you are a history geek, weve got some more treats for you next week, when amanda heads underwater in italy. And finally, this week, we head to Kangaroo Island, about 70 miles from the coast of adelaide. People come here for its seclusion, its golden beaches and its abundance of wildlife. But last summer, it was one of the highest profile casualties in australias worst wildfire season on record. The flames spread over 16 million acres, mostly in the south west of the country, in New South Wales and victoria. It destroyed thousands of homes and businesses and claimed the lives of at least 33 people. According to the wwf, it also killed or displaced as many as 3 billion animals. Here at the Kangaroo Island wildlife park, the owners found themselves directly in the fires path as they fought to save some of the countrys most iconic creatures. This little one is grace. Grace came in from a Road Accident when her mum was unfortunately hit by a car and killed, so she has been with us for nearly two months now. Its really important that they do have their teddies. She holds onto that and sees it as her mum. It gives her comfort. If she doesnt have one, she does start looking for one, she gets quite stressy. This building is the koala orphanage weve got at the park. Hello, you two. It holds all sorts of different animals, not just koalas, but it was established during the bushfire as a response to the need that we had. The park was a hub for all the injured animals coming off the fire ground. At times, the flames got within a couple of kilometres, threatening the centre and everyone working there. 0bviously, because ive got little conor, we evacuated twice. When i left the front gates, i didnt know if i would be coming back to absolute devastation or whether we would come back to having a business still here. Daynas husband, sam, took the extraordinary decision to stay behind and fight the fire. Fortunately, the centre was spared, allowing the familys work to continue. Throughout the entire fire period time, we ended up with over 600 koalas come through, and around 150 other species. A lot of the animals that were coming in through the fires primarily presented with burns. Quite a few had burnt down to the bone, and the best thing was for them to be euthanised, so we did lose quite a lot as well, but pretty much all of them came in very dehydrated, so quite a large range of injuries. Its really amazing to see how well they coped with the fires, and how well the ones that are still out in the wild have adapted to the changing conditions, so their habitat was completely destroyed and theyve managed to pull through and be eating the regrowth rather than eating established trees like usual, theyve been a lot more resilient than expected, so its been awesome to see the resilience of the australian wildlife. Throughout the crisis, the centre received a wave of International Press coverage and donations from all over the world. The whole area got a lot of attention because of the unusual intensity of the bushfires. Nearly half the entire island burned, consuming almost all of finders Chase National park. Some of the fire started here, after lightning struck dry vegetation and conditions made worse by climate change. So nearly everything went. You know, the visitor centre, the accommodation, the rangers houses, university buildings. It was a very emotional experience. You know, when you love a park, you love what is here and what it represents and then to see it all wiped out in such a short period of time. But an amazing recovery has begun. So during the fires, Different Things cope differently, so the stringy barks that are growing here nice and tall, they have a thick bark which burns off in the fire and burns really fast, and so they shoot out lots of shoots all up the stem. So the australian bush needs fire to regenerate. It is a way of cleaning it up. It removes diseased wood and old wood and a lot of things only germinate afterfire. Most people wont recognise it has been a fire, probably, in three or four years time. And then some of those species will take 10 15 years before they are actually doing a lot of. Seeds set for the next fire. But the recovery is far from complete. International tourism hasnt been allowed in australia since march. So the only visitors to the island this summer are likely to be people coming from the mainland. We were able to reopen again after covid 19. South australia was really lucky, thejuly holidays were really busy. South australia could only travel within a state, so it is awesome to support people who have never been to Kangaroo Island came over. It is important the park is open because it is a major tourist attraction and the island has two main industries, farming and tourism, so you need have both industries flourishing for a good economy. Right, thats your lot for this week. Coming up next week. To the batmobile christas here to look back at some of our favourite trips to north america. Laughter from ice canoeing in canada. So how do you feel right now . I need to sit down . To paddling around the worlds shipwreck capital. And here you are, on top of this massive wreck thats been there for over 100 years until then, from all of us, looking longingly at the check in desks at London City Airport, its bye bye hello there. We are into the start of december and meteorological winter and it will feel very wintry for the rest of this week. We will see change behind this cold front, very cold artic air will spread and some showers which will turn increasingly wintry over Northern Hills through the course of today. Windy for much of scotland and Northern Ireland with gales in the far northwest and a lot of showers, western scotland particularly, where some will be heavy with hail and thunder mixed in and increasing snow to the hills. The cold front sinking to the southeast will confine to the southeast, cloudy with rain but the skies will brighten up later on in the day and cold air and temperatures in the single digits. Heading to wednesday night, showery for snow on the hills in the north and we start to see the weatherfront bringing more organised rain in the parts of england and wales in the night, so here because of the wind, cloud and rain, not as cold as it was further north and snow showers and clear spells. Into thursday, this complex area of low pressure establishes up across the country, northern half of the country, will see sunshine and showers, snow in the hills and even down to lower levels at times, particularly in western scotland. Across southern england and wales, it will be really cloudy, wet and pretty heavy rain at times, gales through the channel and even a little bit of wintryness over the high ground across england and wales. It will feel cold wherever you are and temperatures of 3 7 degrees. Heading into friday, area of low pressure sticks around and we will see two centers it, one could bring some rain and hill snow, significant accumulating snow across parts of scotland. And we will see this front pushing into central and Eastern England to bring some heavy rain and you could see snow on the hills here in the pennines and wet sleety snow down to lower levels. The best of any dry and bright weather will be across Northern Ireland, wales and the southwest of england but it will be another really cold day wherever you are. 0ur area of low pressure sticks around heading into the weekend. Notice as we move to saturday and sunday it starts to weaken a little bit. Part two of the week looks a little bit quieter. You can see both saturday and sunday will remain cold and further wintry showers on saturday, and something a little bit drier and quieter on sunday. A very warm welcome to bbc news. Im mike embley. 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