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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Truly true....
Other than POI, no TV for me....
“Spare the (proverbial) rod...”
They are parroting what they hear at home or pre-school.
Being a “bad” parent, I introduced my kids to the concept of taxation at that early age....
[These people do need help, just not the help they think they need.]
Several states have already outlawed Conversion Therapy.
NWO
So what's the answer? Add to the mix having to give up that last vestige of privacy and let folks pee where ever they want.
Some "civilizations" deserve to die.
“Go get yo Daddy a beer.”
In 1960 we had 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and UHF45 was just starting up. We could watch the bullfights on 45.
Proof positive the parents are brainwashing their little children. That’s child abuse.
Bingo.
I’ve seen four year olds convinced they were dogs for a day before told dogs can’t eat ice cream.
Liberals are pushing legitimacy for this particular mental illness because it suits their politics.
As if a man magically transforming into a woman by sheer will and putting on the clothing proves there’s no difference between men and women.
As if a man having major surgery and exposure to hormones proves there’s no major difference between men and women.
This is simply a group to use to bludgeon the traditional sex roles by saying they are optional and irrelevant, as well as pushing greater expansion of the state into every detail of our lives. And it gives them yet another weapon to bash conservatives and the fundamentalist strains of religion with.
I’ve thought that it must be end times.
The world is going insane.
I could care less about the money. Having died and experienced Heaven, anything that keeps me from experiencing that again is a negative..
did you have a near death experience, or are you speaking metaphorically in some way?
He’s not done yet. He vows to bring in 100,000 muslims before his term is done.
You have some good points there.
For these reasons and more, I’m glad I am not growing up today, not coming of age in today’s world.
I of course will not allow myself to make that prediction, but there is a convincing argument, at least for me, to support such a claim. All I know for sure, is that my end time is inching closer and closer everyday, LOL.
Perfect. That’s how to center a child on reality.
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