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UK’s National Health Service has ordered the closure of a controversial gender clinic for children over a report revealing that some health staff felt pressured to take “an unquestioning affirmative approach” to children experiencing gender dysphoria.
The Tavistock Centre, in north London, is known as the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). Tavistock was founded in 1920 and originally focused on helping WWI shellshock victims. Since then it has grown to encompass a variety of services under the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust banner, with GIDS focusing on child gender issues. Since 1989 GIDS has treated 19,000 children with gender dysphoria (the feeling that one’s true identity is the opposite gender of their physical body).
The external report expressed concerns, among them the lack of knowledge about the effects of puberty blockers. Dr. Hilary Cass, the head of the review, wrote a letter to the head of NHS England on July 19:
…the most significant knowledge gaps are in relation to treatment with puberty blockers, and the lack of clarity about whether the rationale for prescription is as an initial part of a transition pathway or as a ‘pause’ to allow more time for decision making.
We do not fully understand the role of adolescent sex hormones in driving the development of both sexuality and gender identity through the early teen years, so by extension we cannot be sure about the impact of stopping these hormone surges on psychosexual and gender maturation. We therefore have no way of knowing whether, rather than buying time to make a decision, puberty blockers may disrupt that decision-making process.
It’s interesting to read a professional admitting that they do not know everything about gender dysphoria and transition because every time I hear an “expert” they sound as if there are no unanswered questions and that we have a full understanding of the effects of hormone blockers and surgery. If you want to see people who are completely sure of their realities, check out Matt Walsh’s documentary, What is a Woman, read Bonchie’s piece on it, or just read below:
Pediatrician tells Matt Walsh 'your sperm don't make you male,' 'wonderful' puberty blockers are 'completely reversible' in 'What Is a Woman?' documentary https://t.co/umKVYPgmbT
https://www.theblaze.com/news/walsh-what-is-a-woman
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/tavistock-gender-clinic-lawyers-latest-b2143006.html
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2022, @01:46AM (6 children)
Anyone else notice how right wingers spend so much time obsessing over the sexuality of young children? Why is that?
It sure is creepy that right wingers think about the sexuality of young children so much.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2022, @02:12AM
Welcome to the republic of Gilead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2022, @02:39PM
They are in service to a war machine [violence.de]. One that requires (among other things) men to normalize the denial of nuanced bodilyy pleasure.
Fascism demands un-nuanced heirarchy and divisions. Male/female is primary. Men are for killing, women are for breeding, and sex is all about power. The existance of people with SRY mutations, or non- X{X,Y} chromosomal arrangements, or sexual preferences that don't directly lead to more kids for the killing machine, threatens the foundations of their fantasy version of the world.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2022, @12:10PM (3 children)
Because the real groomers are in the right-wing churches.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Monday August 15 2022, @03:10PM
Department of Justice investigates Southern Baptist Convention following sex abuse inquiry [tennessean.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2022, @07:48PM
^ 100%
Child marriage is rampant amongst evangelicals, and all the denominations have major issues protecting pedophiles. Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons are some of the worst for it, and they spread religious hatred. Time to seize their assets and close them down as terrorist organizations. Also time to remove tax exemptions for spiritual clubs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 16 2022, @02:46PM
At least 181 K-12 educators charged with child sex crimes in first half of 2022 [foxnews.com]