The NHS, Tavistock clinic and other professional health bodies, GPs: policies, practice guidelines and treatments
The World Health Organisation used to have a useful page on its website (archived here) entitled 'What do we mean by sex and gender?' The information on the page was…
(Referral figures from Tavistock GIDS) In the late Sixties, 90% of transsexual adults were male. Fifty years on and the latest published figures from the Tavistock clinic indicate…
The Hot Topics in Child Health conference on June 12 brought together leading professionals from across Europe to share their expertise and research in the area of 'transgender and gender…
One of the biggest concerns of parents who contact this site is the difficulty in finding counsellors or therapists who will not just jump to affirm their child's "preferred gender"…
One of the most alarming aspects of the exponential rise in the number of children referred to gender clinics over the last few years is the steady rise of those…
Kids on the Edge: The Gender Clinic was a documentary on the work of the Tavistock and Portman gender clinic in London, aired on Channel 4 on November 16th. The…
The private GP who has administered cross-sex hormones to twelve-year-olds, Dr Helen Webberley, was recently featured on Channel 4 News in an item which included an interview with her at the 'online transgender medical…
The news this week that a doctor running a private gender clinic in Wales is prescribing cross-sex hormones to children as young as twelve unfortunately comes as no surprise; if…
We were recently informed of the NHS public consultation on Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) for children and adolescents. The consultation ends on April 20th. There are two new documents…
We attended a seminar at Cambridge University entitled 'Gender Non-Conforming Children: Treatment Dilemmas In Puberty Suppression' presented by Bernadette Wren, Head of Psychology, Gender Identity Development Service, Tavistock & Portman NHS…