A United Kingdom government advisor on Friday said statistics do not indicate that there had been a large spike in suicides among young people who identified as transgender after a 2020 decision by UK’s National Health Service restricting access to puberty blockers for those under 16. The UK’s health secretary asked Professor Louis Appleby to review allegations that suicide rates among current and former patients of the so-called gender services department at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust had risen. Appleby said he found no statistical evidence indicating teenagers identifying as members of the opposite sex were committing suicide at higher rates or were at greater risk of suicide than before the puberty blocker restrictions.