Private gender clinics for older teens and young adults

After the Cass Review’s final report, there will be greater NHS oversight of gender-related healthcare for the under 18s. But adolescents and young adults who choose to go privately will…

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Court refuses to treat provision of cross-sex hormones to child over 16 as an exceptional case

[Note: the judge referred to Child Q as ‘he’ throughout. We refer to Child Q as a girl for clarity of understanding]. The second recent case concerning a teenage girl’s…

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Why did adult gender clinics withhold data from the Cass Review?

The Porterbrook Clinic in Nether Edge. Photo: Yasmin Wakefield by Shelley Charlesworth The news that adult gender clinics, who had refused to share their data with the Cass Review, have…

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