Canadian specialist urges MDs to ‘slow down’ in treating transgender patients after U.K. clinic closed
Underpinning debate is a rapid increase in patients presenting as transgender over the last several years, dominated by girls just entering adolescence
Reported in The National Post.
As the number of youth presenting with gender dysphoria soars and their demographic make-up changes markedly, the health-care system should examine why those trends are happening while taking a thoughtful, “neutral” approach to each young patient, said Dr. Joey Bonifacio. “I do have the same concerns the Tavistock clinic faced,” said Bonifacio, a pediatrician whose practice at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital focuses on gender identity.
The changes that have occurred in Sweden, Finland and now the U.K. should give us food for thought
Dr. Joey Bonifacio
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