UK: Tavistock Gender Clinic Forced to Shut over Safety Fears

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UK: The gender identity service at Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust has been ordered to close by next spring by the National Health Service (NHS) after a review.  The clinic has been accused of rushing vulnerable children under 18 into life-altering treatment on puberty blockers. The clinic had been overwhelmed by a sudden increase in referrals, particularly among young girls and children on the autism spectrum. There is disagreement about whether unhappiness with gender in adolescence was permanent or temporary. Gender-related distress will alleviate for around 80% of pre-teen children once they become teenagers, according to these studies. A ruling made by the High Court that children under 16 were unlikely to be able to give informed consent to receiving puberty blockers was overturned last year. 
The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children after a review found that it failed vulnerable under-18s.
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The gender identity service at Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust has been ordered to close by next spring.
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It will be replaced by regional centres at existing children’s hospitals offering more “holistic care” with “strong links to mental health services”.
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Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic has been accused of rushing children into life-altering treatment on puberty blockers.
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The paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, who is leading a review of the service, issued a series of recommendations today for a radical overhaul of how the NHS treats young people who are questioning their gender identity.
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She found that the Tavistock clinic was “not a safe or viable long-term option” and that other mental health issues were “overshadowed” when gender was raised by children referred to the clinic.
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Cass, former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said the existing model of a sole provider for gender services should be scrapped as it failed to meet the holistic needs of distressed and vulnerable teenagers.
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She said Tavistock should be replaced by regional centres with an “appropriate multi-professional workforce to enable them to provide an integrated model of care that manages the holistic needs of this population”.

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wilma
wilma
1 year ago

Closing the under 18 section by [next spring] is a long time to be allowed to continue abusing and ruining children. By then they will have figured out some other entity to continue on with that.

WNC Asparagus Growers Association
WNC Asparagus Growers Association
1 year ago

Brilliant! Tavistock will now be incorporated into the national health system to not only affect its evil but to get more and quicker data information. (as if it is not already there.)