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Now, an ex-staff member of England's only NHS Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) for young people, at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, psychotherapist Sue Evans - who resigned because she felt so 'deeply concerned' about the fast-tracking of young people into medical tre...
Last month, NHS England confirmedchildren will no longer be prescribed puberty blockersat gender identity clinics, saying there is not enough evidence to support their "safety or clinical effectiveness". The drugs will now only be available to children as part of clinical research trials. Puberty...
After the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) closes, two new NHS services will open in early April, situated in Great Ormond Street Hospital,London, and Alder Hey Children's Hospital inLiverpool. The NHS said children attending these clinics will be supported by experts in neurod...
Gender dysphoria is a term used to describe how an individual feels a strong sense of disassociation between their gender identity and biological sex.
Since 2011, girls represent the majority of children referred to gender identity clinics with a rise of more than 4000% in the UK in the last 10 years (from40girls under 18 in 2009/2010 to1806in 2017/2018) • 95%of of girls referred to gender identity clinics and persisted in gender...
(v) on 9 April 2024, NHS England wrote to all NHS gender dysphoria clinics asking them to defer offering first appointments to those under 18 “as an immediate response to Dr Cass’s advice that ‘extreme caution’ should be exercised before making a recommendation for [cross-sex hormones] ...
Introduction Over the past decade, specialist gender identity clinics worldwide have witnessed a rapid increase in the number of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) young people being referred for clinical services.1-4 The underlying reasons for this increase are of great interest, but there is ...
MTF top surgery is one surgery that can be classified as gender reassignment surgery to help treat gender dysphoria, a condition that causes great distress, and stems from a feeling of disconnect between a person’s biological sex and gender identity. There are certain mental health conditions whi...
FTM surgery is one of the best ways to treat symptoms of gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is linked with feelings of significant distress and is most often due to a mismatch between a person’s gender identity and biological sex. Female-to-male gender surgery is highly effective for treating...