The NHS, Tavistock clinic and other professional health bodies, GPs: policies, practice guidelines and treatments
An important study on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, a new presentation which affects mainly teenage girls, was published last week in the online science journal PLOS ONE. The study, Rapid…
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has threatened the NHS with legal action if access to fertility preservation services is not offered to transgender people awaiting gender reassignment treatments.…
We very much welcome the considered and authoritative views expressed by Professor Robert Winston that children who question their gender identity are potentially being put at risk by doctors intervening…
The UK Council for Psychotherapy has launched a new Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy to include 'gender identity,' leaving therapists, counsellors, GPs and clinical professionals in a position where they may…
An NHS Public Consultation on specialised gender identity services was launched in July and remains open for public response until October 16th, through their online survey here. The new specification which…
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…