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Senior Biden administration health officials pressured an international group of medical experts to remove age limit guidelines for transgender surgeries on minors, according to newly revealed court documents. Email excerpts from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health document how Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services Rachel Levine‘s staff pressed the organization to drop age requirements for minors to obtain gender transition surgeries in the group’s September 2022 Standards of Care update. The documents were revealed as evidence from one of the multiple lawsuits lawsuits across the country regarding state-level bans on gender transition...

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...