In what looks like a reversal of the previous policy, ‘trans toddlers’ will be allowed publicly funded gender treatment with the National Health Service (NHS). This means that previously recognised age limits will be ignored, and children under the age of seven will again be seen by clinics.
Plans for a lower age limit were set by the NHS but then shelved, formally because of further consultation. Yet sources told the Telegraph that NHS England “caved to the pressure” from trans activists. While dangerous ‘puberty blocker’ medicines remain off the table, the clinics will counsel children and their families about ‘gender dysphoria’—temporarily seen as an inappropriate diagnosis for such young children.
Restrictions on so-called gender medicine for children came in following the Cass Report, which raised serious questions about leading ‘transgender medicine’ provider, the Tavistock Clinic, part of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Almost immediately, there were activist efforts to continue the discredited approach through private practice.
According to Genspect, ”an international, non-partisan, interdisciplinary organization committed to promoting a healthy, evidence-based approach to sex and gender,” the change in policy
represents a grave abandonment of clinical responsibility.
