Published December 27, 2023
Children as young as three years old have been referred to Britain’s socialised medicine’s ‘Gender Identity Development Service’ transgender clinic, with hundreds of young children referred in the past decade.
382 children aged six and under have been referred to the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) in the Tavistock and Portman Trust, known commonly as the National Health Service’s transgender clinic, in the past ten years new figures from the Trust reveal. The numbers, published by the Daily Mail, reveal how even the youngest children have been pushed into interacting with the controversial clinic, and that the numbers being referred to GIDS have soared in recent years.
The clinic, which has no official younger age limit to those it will see, has had 12 three-year-olds referred to it between 2010 and 2020, as well as 61 four-year-olds, 140 five-year-olds, and 169 six-year-olds. The number of young people being sent to GIDS year-on-year shows how quickly the concept is spreading, with 136 referrals in 2010-11 to 3,585 a decade later.
It has been previously reported that the clinic “treated” some 19,000 children of all ages in 25 years.
The Daily Mail report also cited the Tavistock Clinic’s own attempt to defend the figures, insisting that while it accepted referrals for three-year-olds, it didn’t actually perform what they euphemistically call “treatment” on the infants. Instead, it was said, “staff normally [hold] a ‘one-off discussion’ with parents or carers to provide support and advice.”
The Tavistock Trust’s gender clinic was supposed to be shut down in disgrace after news of what actually happened to children there became public knowledge thanks to whistleblowers. The service was found to be “inadequate” and that “some patients were referred on to a gender transitioning pathway too quickly” with some children put on puberty blockers after just one consultation.
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SOURCE: www.breitbart.com
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Published December 27, 2023
More than 70 children aged three and four have been sent to the controversial NHS transgender clinic, it can be revealed.
The pre-schoolers were among 382 youngsters aged six and under referred to the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) over the past decade, official figures show.
Campaigners say they never should have been put forward by doctors or parents for psychological assessment at such a young age.
Health Service bosses are now considering introducing a minimum age of seven for future patients on the grounds that younger children are unable to communicate meaningfully with medics about wanting to identify as the opposite sex.
A new consultation by NHS England also acknowledges that little boys showing an interest in girls’ clothes or toys, or vice versa, is ‘reasonably common’ and ‘usually not indicative of gender incongruence’.
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SOURCE: www.dailymail.co.uk
RELATED: Children referred for puberty blockers after just one consultation at Tavistock clinic
Parents call for use of the drugs to be stopped immediately, following warnings they could affect parts of the brain
After the NHS announced that it was closing down the clinic amid safety fears, whistleblowers revealed the haste with which young people were placed on a medical pathway.
Dr Hilary Cass, who is leading a review of the service, has warned that the drugs could prompt the “rewiring of neural circuits” and affect parts of the brain responsible for decision-making and judgment.
The NHS has committed to urgent research on the impact of the drugs and both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have pledged to consider restricting the use of puberty blockers if they win the Tory leadership election.
But parent groups on Friday called for ministers to go further and immediately ban the drugs for use in treating gender dysphoria over concerns about the life-long damage that they are causing.
There were also calls for a public inquiry into the way that the Tavistock, the only clinic for treating transgender children, was operated and why repeated concerns stretching back almost two decades were ignored.
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SOURCE: www.telegraph.co.uk
