Posted on 12/13/2022 10:38:00 AM PST by george76
England’s National Health Service (NHS) banned puberty blockers for minors outside strict clinical trials and advised against social transitions for kids, arguing that most children who think they’re transgender are going through a phase they will outgrow, according to The Telegraph.
The NHS is developing plans to restrict cross-sex medical treatments for children due to “scarce and inconclusive evidence to support clinical decision-making,” according to The Telegraph. As England moves to limit transgender medical interventions for children, the Biden administration has been championing child sex changes and publicly criticizing state level efforts to restrict those procedures as harmful to transgender people
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The NHS is moving away from the model of automatically affirming a child’s transgender identity, and its new guidelines will reflect that most children with gender identity issues grow out of them before adulthood. In order to undergo social transition, an adolescent will first need to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, be able to understand the implications of transitioning and be at risk of serious distress, according to the proposed NHS guidelines, which argue that gender dysphoria is typically a “transient phase” and “in most cases gender incongruence does not persist into adolescence.”
In the U.S., however, only a handful of states have restricted gender-related procedures for children, and President Joe Biden promoted the procedures through HHS guidance calling cross-sex treatments “life-saving.”
The U.K.’s change in stance comes after the world’s largest pediatric gender clinic, Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at Tavistock in the U.K., was shut down following an investigation into the safety of its patients
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GIDS will be replaced with smaller clinics that offer a more holistic approach to children with gender identity issues, and plans for those clinics are being developed as Dr. Hilary Cass reviews the gender-related practices of the NHS, according to The Telegraph. Her report advises against even socially transitioning children to the opposite sex, arguing that changing a child’s name, pronouns and the way they dress can have a major psychological impact and isn’t the neutral, easily reversed intervention that transgender advocates claim.
The U.K. saw a meteoric rise in adolescents identifying as transgender in the past decade, from under 250 in 2011-12 to over 5,000 in 2021, according to The Telegraph, and the U.S. has seen a similar surge in transgender identity in recent years.
A rare and welcome sign of sanity.
Unexpected for the UK, but welcome.
with biden in office
europe actually seems sane sometimes
This may be more of a cost savings move than being compassionate about the kids
Since moving to the Colorado mountains four years ago, I’ve been somewhat sheltered. Last Saturday, I went down the hill to Denver for an event and spotted THREE transgender (or transitioning) young people on 16th Street. This was a “first”! Things are moving swiftly.
At the end of the day, does it matter whether they are saving money on unnecessary genital mutilation or actually trying to put children first?
It’s disturbingly trendy in Georgia and I know more than three who are walking down this path. They all have abuse and toxic relationships in their histories. I get the sense they are trying to “kill” the abuse victim within. One of them is in his fifties and I just don’t get it. He was happy as an effeminate gay man. He was attracted to thugs though. Was even engaged to one who was in prison. It didn’t work out. Another was engaged until it was clear the fiance saw it as a fetish and turned out to be abusive, not kind. It amazes me how many women and gay men I see trapped in a cycle of abusive relationships and how these toxic men they get with are so kind and charming up front and monsters once the relationship gets serious. Truly incredible.
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