The NHS is treating toddlers and nursery-age children who believe they are transgender after watering down its own guidance and removing the under-seven age limit. The Telegraph has the story.
The health service was previously set to introduce a minimum age of seven for children to be seen by its specialist gender clinics, claiming anything less was “just too young”.
The limit was removed after the proposals were put out to consultation, with new guidance due to be published showing that children of any age are eligible.
However, a source close to the consultation process said NHS England had “caved to the pressure” of trans activists to remove the limits.
The children are not given powerful drugs such as puberty blockers at the clinics, but are offered counselling and therapy along with their family.
Up to 10 children of nursery age are being treated, according to new data, while as many as 157 children aged nine or younger have been referred to the clinics.
The NHS previously said that children under seven years old were “just too young” to be considered to have gender dysphoria, citing an example of a young child taking a liking to toys or clothes typical of the opposite sex as normal.
“We know that showing an interest in clothes or toys of the opposite sex – or displaying behaviours more commonly associated with the opposite sex – is reasonably common behaviour in childhood and is usually not indicative of gender incongruence,” it said.
That draft guidance, published in 2023, added that by seven years old, “children may have more developed their cognitive, comprehension and communication skills to an extent that they will be able to engage with health professionals”.
The guidance was drawn up after the Cass review into children’s transgender services, led by the paediatrician Baroness Cass, found the NHS had been sending children on a one-way path to change gender at the Tavistock clinic.
Doctors routinely prescribed puberty blockers despite a lack of evidence to support their safety and effectiveness, and instead of assessing for other conditions.
The clinic was closed as a result and the NHS began opening more ‘holistic’ regional gender clinics as part of plans to move away from a ‘medical model’.
Last month, the Telegraph revealed that these plans included testing all children for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism and checking their mental health.
The number of nursery-aged children referred to the new services is said to be “fewer than 10”, according to data released by the NHS under freedom of information laws.
The exact number of under-fives was withheld in order to prevent them from being identified, but with 157 children under 10 waiting to be seen, it raises the prospect that dozens of under-sevens have been referred to the clinics as a result of the about-turn.
The NHS said it was following the Cass review’s recommendation not to set an age limit and that any care for children aged under seven would be focused on family support and advice.
The Cass review recommended that children who wanted to socially transition be seen as early as possible by medical professionals in order to identify and address any mental health concerns or neurodevelopmental conditions.
The Government has also thrown its support behind the move, insisting it is following the recommendations of the review.
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This makes me feel sick.
But I must face the darkness, for then I have the light at my back.
Evil.
NHS and other woke cretins: Stereotyping people based on their sex is bad. Also NHS: Anyone deviating from someone’s idea of “normal” behaviour in relation to their sex may require “treatment” in a “clinic”.
FThe NHS is treating toddlers and nursery-age children who believe they are transgender…”
The NHS is treating toddlers and nursery-age children whose idiot, abusive mothers who should be locked up believe they are transgender…
That’s better.
Treating a toddler this way is medical malpractice and child abuse.
Plenty of fathers are on board with this whole trans ideology/gender identity bandwagon, so this attitude and form of ”child abuse” is hardly sex-specific. David Tennant has a son who is trans/non-binary, Robert De Niro’s son recently came out as trans, there’s loads, and they’re just the celebrity ones. More here;
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/celebrity/celebrity-parents-trans-non-binary-children-robert-de-niro-naomi-watts-jamie-lee-curtis-david-tennant-b1227214.html
Mentally ill perverts with retarded ‘parents’.
Mark Carney Selected PM of Beaver-stan has a ‘Trans daughter’.
Seems to be the in-thing with the Satanic-Demonic cult that the ‘elites’ belong to.
Retards, child abusing bastards and Moloch worshippers.
Only one comment on that article.
“Oh how lovely for them”
🤣
A lot of actors don’t know who they are between roles. Not surprising their children are all at sea.
Excellent point
I think being an epic Lefty Woketard is baked in generally to most in the entertainment industry. Look how many went public on the run up to the U.S election, supportive of the trans-loving cult: the Demtards, then having a meltdown when Trump actually won. I get the impression anyone opposed to the woke mind virus in Hollywood is very much an outlier and probably have to keep their heads down and opinions to themselves if they want to keep getting work.
The massive flop that was Snow White at least gave them a good hard dose of reality and a wake-up call about what the ‘great unwashed’ tend to think of this toxic garbage.
I used to be a big fan of singer ‘Pink’, but her and her huz brought their kids up ‘non-binary’, so no more respect from me. I think the vast majority are Trump-haters, probably because he’s anti-woke.
Quite. The nuisance is that one can read that an actor thinks that leaving the EU was “catastrophic”, for example [Jason Watkins], and that gets in the way of watching the fictional character. They shouldn’t be allowed to speak when not playing a role.
In their heads, they are “creative” people who feel a great need to demonstrate this by pretending to be the only truly sensitive people who understand true emotions. So it behoves them to be “sensitive”, “loving”, “inclusive” and “caring” “allies”. They have a great need to fit in and be accepted.
I studied acting at a prominent London acting school with a load of these luvvies, so I know this better than all of you 😉
Professional virtue-signallers, I can imagine…Then there’s the need to stay relevant and constant attention/approval-seeking. Most probably can’t afford the demolition job it would do to their image and career if they go against the grain, so conform and avoid being alienated they remain.
Yes, my wife likes Pink, we even went to see her (them?) when we were dating. I can’t stand to hear that music now.
Toddlers don’t have a ‘trans’ gender problem. It’s the parents that need treatment
Indeed. “Parents”, plural, being the operative word. Because unless a child is being brought up by a single mother, and the father has either legged it out of the picture or has zero access rights, then one can hardly lay blame exclusively on the woman in this scenario, can one? Both parents bring a child into the world and *both* parents are responsible for the upbringing and being a positive influence on said child. As I’ve said umpteen times on here now: woketards are available in both sexes, much like any cult-members, actually. And for these poor children it really is like being born into a cult, with parents so fully invested in this ideology. What hope do they have of a normal, healthy upbringing?
Mothers are supposed to protect their young – even from their fathers.
That (some) fathers are “on board” does not absolve mothers.
Your assertion immediately falls apart as soon as I mention the irrefutable fact that there is not one human trait which is sex-specific. Not one. So all this “women should be this”, “women are supposed to be that”, as a way of holding up females to a different standard to men and pointing the finger in order to scapegoat us, is all just dealing in stereotypes.
Misogynists always take the men out of the frame so that they can be absolved from responsibility, but where are all these dads of ‘trans’ children and what about their paternal instinct and natural inclination to protect? Well, they’re either totally absent in the chold-rearing process or fully supportive of what’s being done to their offspring, playing an active role, no doubt.
In his excellent book Graham Lineham mentions a friend who told their 4-5 year old son that some some girls have a penis. The child then replied “I’m a girl with a penis” and his father then raised him as a girl and constantly told him he was a girl. With parents like this what chance have children got of avoiding the slippery slope to puberty blockers, hormones, surgical mutilation and a lifetime of infertility and mental health problems?
Well, exactly. But the resident Misogynist Society would still place all the blame on the mother and find a way to exonerate the father. Due to reality being as kryptonite to them, denialism is their default state of being when confronted with uncomfortable truths that refute their inner narrative. Same old same old.🤷♀️
My sentiments exactly. Munchausen’s by Proxy is, I believe, the name of the psychiatric condition in play here.
Interesting diagnosis there, ‘doctor’. So tell me, where is your evidence? The only way your claim would hold any weight is if no men were involved in the ‘transing’ of their children, and yet these woketard daddies are all over the shop. Does this dad have Munchausen’s, in your non-expert opinion? But keep blaming the women, eh? It is a recurring theme around these parts, after all;
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1677812204748382208
Who blamed women? Read before commenting please.
Munchausen’s by proxy is not limited to females, a simple search would have told you this.
You agreed with your pal, therefore *you*. Wowsers, even Sting and Magic Johnson must have Munchausen’s, going by ‘Dr Rigger’s’ expertise;
https://x.com/dragonfly713/status/1921585142541250740
Read the post by Tylney about “parents needing treatment”, then have a lie down.
And there it is. Another man who just can’t hack being challenged by a woman and has to resort to snark. Par for the course..🥱
Oh, don’t forget Elon Musk’s trans son. Though he’s evidently one of them ‘absent fathers’ so it was obviously all the mother’s doing…
Hey, much more common than is documented, this Munchausen’s lark, isn’t it? 😶
Take it however you want to.
My point is that this isn’t limited to women.
N.B., if you don’t like snarkiness, don’t start it.
Yours, “Dr” Rigger.
The “doctor” was in reference to how confident you were in your assertion ( ‘diagnosis’ ) that this is what the problem is, yet you provide no supporting evidence. Do a search of the syndrome and the criteria don’t meet what we’re seeing with parents transing their kids. There is no mysterious physical illness at play here that medics are having to search for. The medics are all on board with this and part of the cult in the first place.
No, it’s a mental illness on the part of the parents. Look up any description of the syndrome you like.
In essence, harming one’s children for attention, whether that be medical, sympathetic or in this case to publicly present a “woke” or “tolerant” face whilst harming the child by foisting gender ID nonsense on them.
It’s all about attention and some form of twisted kudos for the parent(s) and couldn’t be clearer in the context of this phenomenon.
I also have no formal training as a vehicle mechanic, but I can tell you that if there’s dirty bubbles emanating from the coolant reservoir and/or your oil looks like mayonnaise, your head gasket probably needs to be replaced.
Disgusting, toxic ideology, popularized by a pervert sexologist man ( ‘gender identity’ – John Money ) who believed that children were all ‘gender neutral’, and so their sex was irrelevant. Now, thanks to a push from the socialist Leftie woketards, it would appear obvious that it’s a precursor to the normalization of paedophilia, plus the eradication of the distinction between the sexes, thereby an erosion of both male and female sex-based rights;
”The fallout of the gender ideology that was first pioneered by Money is manyfold and is constantly changing. One of the theories bandied about now is that we all fall into a gender spectrum with two extremes of male and female on either end, but with infinite points in between. Not just female and male genders, but an infinite tableau of genders that are projections of an inner knowledge of what you truly are. These gender-identities are inate and we have to validate all of these possible identities even if they are transitory and constantly changing.
If you pay close attention to the “experts” and the sock puppets that fill the role of the political class, you may be aware that they claim an infinite number of genders exist.
At the start of this article we asked where did it all come from. Well if John Money’s theories on gender and affirming gender all sounds like a dogmatic belief involving a transcendent transformation which comes of faith and revelation, perhaps that is because it is exactly what its adherents manifest and espouse.
Expert commentator on woke ideology, James Lindsay, believes it has a religious belief structure similar to Gnosticism; a belief which predates modern scientism by two millennia but which says that the spirit (or the intellect) is good while the physical world is evil.
The Ancient Gnostics believed that man must reject the boundaries of the physical, which is of a fallen world, and strive for the true essence of the spirit. Gender theory rejects the boundaries of biology and creates a new physical gender expression based on something esoteric; something internally known and manifested through the intellect and surgery. Some would see surgery as a blood offering, and a rebirth into a new holy state through the transformation of gnosis.”
https://gript.ie/the-invention-of-gender-ideology-the-deeply-disturbing-story-of-john-money/
The NHS is a monstrous nightmare of an organisation. How many tax and NI payers are happy for their money to be spent on this sort of stuff? Why is this thought to be an essential health issue on which public money should be spent? In my view no public money should be spent on anything to do with trans gender issues.
Indeed.
I know I keep banging on about this but very little “public money” should be spent on anything and certainly none on “public health”. If people want to spend their own money on “gender” then they can have at it.
The NHS worked tolerably well for most of its existence. Only fairly recently did he become a playground of political activists of all kind who see it as just another way of diverting taxpayer money to whatever their pet agendas happen to be.
I think this is very applicable here:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2021%3A12-13&version=KJV
This is evil. Children before puberty don’t even know what sex is and usually enjoy dressing up as someone/ something else. This makes them ideal targets for the trans-mafia seeking to stop them from ever becoming what they actually are.
If there’s something like hate-driven ideology, this would be it.
This is why the rape gangs are permitted, because the elites and society see children as nothing more than sexual playthings, how are we allowing this?
More definitive proof that a malignant cult is running our national health service.
This is an example of why it should be renamed:
No
Hope
Service