Children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS England has confirmed. The government said it welcomed the “landmark decision”, adding it would help ensure care is based on evidence and is in the “best interests of the child”....
Gender Identity ServiceSusan J. BradleyGender Identity ServicePeggy T. Cohen-KettenisGender ClinicTaylor & Francis GroupJ Pers AssessWallien MSC, Cohen-Kettenis PT, Lambert SL, Owen-Anderson A, Bradley SJ, Zucker KJ. Cross-National Replication of the Gender Identity Interview for Children, ...
Themajor review- led by Dr Hilary Cass - was launched in 2020 after a sharp rise in referrals to the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids), which was the only specialised service in England for young people experiencing difficulties in the development of their gender identity. The cli...
In July, Gender Identity Development Services—the world’s largest gender-identity clinic for children, located at the Tavistock Institute in London—was ordered to close, following an independentreviewthat concluded its program of heavily medicalising child patientsthreatenedtheir safety. Since then...
From 1978 through 1995, a sex ratio of 6.6:1 of boys to girls (N = 275) was observed for children referred to a specialty clinic for gender identity disorder. This article attempts to evaluate several hypotheses regarding the marked sex disparity in referral rates. The sexes did not differ...
Tags:deciding to transition,gender identity,transgender,transitioning Important Medical Info for Trans Men I finally watched the documentary “Southern Comfort”; it’s one I’ve been meaning to watch for years. I wouldn’t recommend it to someone trying to find out more about the trans community...
They also state that, "The Gender Identity Development Service must carry out a full clinical review of each patient who is aged below 16 years and who has been receiving puberty blockers as a response to a referral by the Gender Identity Development Service to an endocrine clinic…" The sen...
Here's how parents can help model a flexible, open, and curious attitude about gender identity for children. Gender versus sex Gender isn't black and white. It's a spectrum, and wherever someone exists along that spectrum is healthy and normal. Before having these conversations with kid...
As a factor in parenting stress, gender differences in caring for children with genetic or rare diseases warrant research attention; therefore, this study explored gender differences in parenting stress, health outcomes, and illness perceptions among caregivers of pediatric genetic or rare disease populat...
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