London— The only gender identity clinic in Scotland has paused prescribing puberty blockers to new patients under 18 years old, mirroring action taken by England's health authorities after alandmark reviewfound young people had been let down by "remarkably weak" evidence backingmedical interv...
The article presents the insights of various psychologists on their work at the West London Mental Health Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) in London, England. GIC consultant psychologist Penny Lenihan says her work requires her to integrate the role of psychiatrists to that of psychologists. Senior ...
She earned a PhD in Behavioural Neuroendocrinology in 2002 from City, University of London, and completed a further two years of postdoctoral training in Gender Identity Assessment with the Psychoendocrine Clinic, Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York. ...
Gender dysphoria is a term used to describe how an individual feels a strong sense of disassociation between their gender identity and biological sex.
Young people aged 17 or older may be seen in an adult gender identity clinic but following the review NHS England said it would now pause first appointments at adult clinics for teens under 18, as well as bringing forward its review of adult gender services....
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Patient satisfaction with gender identity clinic services in the United Kingdom. Sex Relatsh Ther 2013;28:400-18.Davies A., Bouman W.P., Richards C. et al. (2013) Patient sat- isfaction with gender identity clinic services in the United Kingdom. Sexual and Relationship Therapy 28 (4),...
there are many more patients. Referrals to a specialist clinic attached to the Free University of Amsterdam rose 20-fold between 1980 and 2015. The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock Clinic in London, England and Wales's only paedi...
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”....
Two hundred and ninety-five females completed the Sexual Behaviour Scale-III (SBS-III) online. Self-reported gender identity and sexual orientation were compared between 134 autistic (Mage=26.2 years, SD=8.7) and 161 non-autistic females (Mage= 22.0 years, SD = 4.6). Differences in ...