Posted on 08/04/2023 4:36:04 PM PDT by RandFan
Children as young as seven will get transgender treatment on the NHS, according to plans seen by The Telegraph.
In details of the new service to replace the controversial Tavistock clinic, NHS England has set out how it will limit the use of puberty blockers and ban activists and teachers from referring children for treatment.
For the first time, it has set a minimum age of seven for referral to the gender identity clinics.
These children will be offered psychological support and therapy that will focus on issues that may have led to their feelings about their gender.
However, experts have warned that the age restriction could still put young children with mental health problems on a “pathway to medical transition”.
Campaigners welcomed the “move toward an evidence-based approach”, but said there was still work to be done to ensure children are kept safe.
The NHS announced last year that it would be closing the Tavistock transgender clinic after a review by Dr Hilary Cass found it was “not safe”.
It was the only NHS transgender clinic treating children and concerns were raised that young people were being rushed down a medical pathway.
The clinic is being replaced by a set of regional centres that will be led by medical doctors, rather than therapists, and consider the impact of other conditions such as autism and mental health issues.
The move came amid growing concern about the impact of gender ideology on children, including in schools where some were being socially transitioned without their parents’ consent.
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Brilliant.Dr David Bell, a consultant psychiatrist...said: “...the mere fact of referral is consequential.
“It risks the child’s difficulties being viewed by themselves and their family as primarily to do with gender. Labelling the problem as a gender problem can easily be the first step on a pathway to medical transition.
“My view is that certainly for the younger ages, children should be managed within the context of the ordinary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services...
“Their difficulties should not be designated as a gender problem, it is much more appropriate that they be seen as individuals who are distressed and this is one way in which that distress is expressed.”
no quarter for predators
Western nations are morally, spiritually and economically bankrupt. The barbarians are inside the gates and have captured most governments and institutions. We are watching western civilization being destroyed from within and with virtually no resistance.
This is SATANIC abomination and it didn’t come from the Mooselimbs. It came from post-Christian failed Western nation states libtards & pddos. They are now preying on children and most parents don’t care. They just want their Taco Bell & weed.
The West is a largely combination of spiritually dead and Satanic. It’s finished.
I agree. It’s beyond frustrating.
100% correct.
England's National Health Service (NHS) controls the vast majority of healthcare for English citizens. It is a socialist, dictatorial system in which many have died because their symptoms were overlooked or their treatments failed, and their courts would not allow the patient to seek care in the U.S. or elsewhere.
The NHS Tavistock Clinic had been promoting transgender hormones and surgeries on children for decades; however, Tavistock was successfully sued by a detransitioner, and was closed. This article says the NHS has set up a program of treating children with mental health therapy instead of rushing them into transition.
The headline "trans treatment" refers to emotional and health therapy. NHS is not even going to allow children below the age of seven to receive any treatment labeled "gender", for fear of affirming the child's delusion. They will receive counseling.
Meanwhile in the U.S., transgender ideology in schools and healthcare systems remains widespread, government mandated, promoted and in many ways funded by the Biden administration. But as far back as ten years ago, many U.S. states banned "conversion therapy" for gender-confused patients and the campaign against viewing homosexuality as a clinical illness, thereby suppressing research and treatments, goes back to the 1970s.
Never forget that most of the mainstream media are very pro-LGBT; hence the misleading headline.
US is the worst country for pushing 'extreme gender ideology,' sex change surgeries on youth: report
England Moves To Restrict Transgender Procedures For Kids As Biden Doubles Down
The US is also extreme compared to Europe in the case of late term abortions. Brits are astounded when they hear about 3rd trimester abortion up to to and after birth.
You are correct, I was responding to the headline without checking veracity.
Meanwhile, people still wait too long for cancer treatments
Record number of cancer patients in England waiting over three months for treatment
Man died after excessive wait for cancer treatment
Ill in England? Your Location Can Determine If You Live or Die
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-nhs-missing-targets-on-75th-anniversary/
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