The NHS, Tavistock clinic and other professional health bodies, GPs: policies, practice guidelines and treatments
Tavistock's Experimentation with Puberty Blockers: Scrutinizing the Evidence by Michael Biggs, Dept of Sociology, University of Oxford (2 March 2019) In 2010, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust’s Gender Identity Development…
We write in regard to the recent reports in the Sunday Times which revealed "very serious ethical concerns" expressed by a number of staff members at Tavistock GIDS, and the…
The overriding issue dramatised in the second episode of ITV's 'Butterfly' was a parent's quest for puberty blockers in the face of a clinician's caution. In this post, Susan Matthews…
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 Lord 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…