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England’s Only Children’s Transgender Clinic Shut Down by NHS After Review Finds it is “Not Safe” for Children

by Will Jones
28 July 2022 1:19 PM

The Tavistock transgender clinic is to be shut down by the NHS after a review found it is “not safe” for children. The Telegraph has more.

NHS England will move young people who believe that they are trans into regional centres which will take a more “holistic” approach to treatment and look at other mental health or medical issues they may have.

The decision is a response to the interim Cass Review, which warned that medics in the Tavistock had felt “under pressure to adopt an unquestioning affirmative approach” to gender identity rather than going through the normal process of clinic assessment with young people.

Dr. Hilary Cass, the consultant paediatrician who is leading the independent review, found earlier this year that the clinic as the only provider of gender identity services for young people in England was “not a safe or viable long-term option”.

Announcing their response to Dr. Cass’s recommendations, NHS England said that “given the urgent requirement to stabilise current service provision” they will establish two “Early Adopter services” run by specialist children’s hospitals.

The centres, one in London and one in the North West, will take responsibility for all of the Tavistock clinic’s patients and waiting lists with the aim to shut down the clinic by next spring.

NHS England have also committed to follow Dr. Cass’s recommendation that they carry out “rapid” research on the use of puberty blockers by young people after it was noted there is currently “insufficient evidence” on their impact.

The Cass review was commissioned by NHS England in 2020 amid concerns that there was “scarce and inconclusive evidence to support clinical decision making” which saw children as young as 10 given puberty blockers.

There were concerns over a sharp rise in referrals to the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust – over 5,000 in 2021/2 compared to 250 a decade earlier and long waiting lists.

About time. But sadly this isn’t the end of medicalising children’s gender confusion with irreversible intervention. The NHS says it now hopes eventually to run around eight regional centres, making it not unlike the mythical Hydra, where the lopping off of one head only causes eight to grow in its place.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: The NHS could be banned from giving puberty blockers to children, with Tory leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak pledging to consider restricting their use over concerns that “life-altering treatments” are being given to children before they are old enough to make well-informed decisions.

Tags: HydraNHSSafetyTransgenderism

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jeepybee
jeepybee
2 years ago

Potentially good news, even if it makes people think. Odd that people even need to think that this mess is good in the first place though…

In different news, it’s great to see adverts on DS! I never thought I’d say about a website, but it’s awesome that there are companies out there that aren’t captured by the Blob! Gunna click on as many as I can to get revenue through to help you out as you helped me out in the past 3 years.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago

What about useless face masks? The jabs? The school closures? Being told they are “vectors of death”?

Hmm?

No, let’s let the NHS focus on something which, while terrible, affects a miniscule percentage of the population.

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@yorkshirekate
@yorkshirekate
2 years ago

Great news that the dreadful Tavistock is to close, but I don’t think we should be supporting – and certainly not paying for – ‘gender dysphoria’ treatments. GD is a dangerous trendy fad and no-one should be encouraged to think the impossible, that gender change is possible. I don’t think ‘trans’ people should be supported to fulfill their fantasy. Society needs its norms and although norms can change over time, we’ve already seen the damage that promoting trans fiction has done.

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
2 years ago

Here in Thailand if anyone wants to have a ‘sex change’ it has to be paid for by the individual.

Hence the fact that hormonal treatment is only started when the person has accrued enough funds usually by working, to undergo medical/surgical therapy.

Also the sex that was determined when they were born remains on their ID card and passport.

In my opinion Thailand has got it right.

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