Posted on 05/14/2016 11:27:01 AM PDT by rickmichaels
The number of children referred to gender identity clinics has doubled in the last year. Children as young as three were among the 1,419 under-16s who received support during 2015/16.
That's an increase from the 697 children the previous year who believe they were born in the wrong body. Parents are now having to wait up to nine months to take their child to a clinic after being referred by their GP. Figures from the Gender Identity Development Service show they treated three children aged three last year.
Dr. Polly Carmichael, from the clinic which is part of the Tavistock Centre, told The Sun the rise was unprecedented.
'Young people are making the full social transition — living full-time in their preferred gender inside and outside the home — at earlier ages,' she said.
Children and their parents talk to psychologists, psychiatrists and experts at the North London clinic as part of consultations. Poppy, now nine, has made the transition from a boy to a girl.
She said: 'I didn't feel right as a boy. When I was little I'd go to a wishing well in my garden and wish I was a girl. I'm so happy now that wish has come true.'
Children who attend the clinic can be given medication but would not be eligible for any gender reassignment surgery until 18. Hormone blockers can be prescribed to children under 16 which helps to prevent the development of typically male or female features.
Cross-sex hormones can then be given to children at 16 if they wish to continue treatment.
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I’m a good example of that. I just thought boys did more fun things. I’d still rather go hunting than shopping, but no one ever accused me of being masculine.
How do you know Chabad’s not right?
My youngest daughter several times when she was a child, said she wished she was a boy.
She adored her older brother and thought that boys had much more fun. They did more fun things.
That was the reason.
And then the hormones kicked in......
I do not disagree with it. The split between male and female prior to birth is necessary to experience separation from God.
Is there a spiritual difference, that you can...er...sense between men and women?
Both are equally important. Embracing both, which is only possible when Love is present, is necessary in order to grow spiritually.
You can only find them by going within self.
Only evil people do this to children.
Thank you very much for your response. Finding that you now have “experiential knowing” the Bible to be the word of God is most interesting. How fortunate we are to have the Bible!
This post reminds me of those Biblical references to the sins of the fathers.
Going where within self? I’m always here.
LOL..... ok.... go within so you can see further
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