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BREAKING: NHS Closes Only Gender Identity Clinic For Children

Tavistock gender clinic forced to shut over safety fears

Centre accused of rushing vulnerable children into treatment

Dr. Hilary Cass, former president of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, just issued her much anticipated review of the service.

And it is devastating. As a result, Tavistock will be closed.

It will be replaced by regional centres at existing children’s hospitals offering more “holistic care” with “strong links to mental health services”.

Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic has been accused of rushing children into life-altering treatment on puberty blockers.

The paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, who is leading a review of the service, has today issued a series of recommendations for a radical overhaul of how the NHS treats young people who are questioning their gender identity.

She found that the Tavistock clinic was “not a safe or viable long-term option” and that other mental health issues were “overshadowed” when gender was raised by children referred to the clinic.

Cass, former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said the current model of a sole provider for gender services should be scrapped as it failed to meet the holistic needs of distressed and vulnerable teenagers.

She said Tavistock should be replaced by regional centres with an “appropriate multi-professional workforce to enable them to provide an integrated model of care that manages the holistic needs of this population”.

Amid concerns that the clinic fails to take into account wider health problems before putting children on puberty blockers, Cass added: “Staff should maintain a broad clinical perspective in order to embed the care of children and young people with gender uncertainty within a broader child and adolescent health context.”

Source:  TheTimes (emphasis mine)

The upshot: They have been experimenting on children. They “failed to collect sufficient data on the impact of puberty blockers in under-16s.” Last year Tavistock received more than 5,000 referrals compared to 250 a decade ago. Surprisingly, most of them young girls. Many were children on the autism spectrum. Mental health issues went unexplored. And gender-questioning youth suffered. They rushed to treat with puberty blockers even though the benefits are uncertain and there are no long-term studies about the impact surrounding their use.

What a scandalous disregard for children.

FULL STORY

Thanks to everyone who worked so hard for this day. The Gender Critical Feminists of the UK, J.K. Rowling et al….

Especially,

Transgender Clinic Whistleblower Speaks Out
Keira Bell

There is more to do.

Europe is pulling back.

The US under the Biden Administration is pushing ahead. If you question a child’s belief that they are born in the wrong body and don’t follow them down the Gender-Affirming Identity-Medicalization track, you might be accused of engaging in “conversion therapy.”

You might even have your child taken away from you.

Gender Ideology Separates Mother From Daughter

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Love Refuses to Affirm Confusion

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A Corporate Case To Support Adoption, Not Abortion

Made by Peter Rex, Founder and CEO, of REX (which builds and invests in tech companies). He just wrote an opinion piece at Newsweek.com

Corporate America is fully on board the abortion bandwagon. In the wake of the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, dozens of the country's biggest businesses announced plans to pay for employees to travel to obtain abortions. From Amazon to Bank of America to the New York Times and beyond, these companies are not only offering thousands of dollars or extra health insurance coverage to their team members, they're also picking sides in the abortion debate.

Yet why is there no corresponding policy to promote adoption? These businesses are ignoring the possibility that many employees may simply need a little more help to carry their baby to term. Instead of blindly paying people to end an unborn child's life, companies should consider paying them to welcome that life into the world. That's why my business has decided to give up to $7,500 to employees who want to have their baby and give it up for adoption. We're not alone—a Texas-based insurance company, Buffer, is also paying for adoptions as well as covering the full costs of birth for employees who keep their children.

Source:  Newsweek.com

Rex explains his motivation and makes his case for A Culture of Life. Maybe you might agree.

Companies Should Support Adoption, Not Abortion 

Peter Rex

Here’s a picture taken at the Natural History Museum in London.

Baby In Womb by Peter O’Connor is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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The Affirm OR Suicide Mantra

“The affirm-or-suicide mantra has become the central strategy of contemporary transgender activism, and at times it would seem that activists have little else in their rhetorical arsenal.” So writes Leor Sapir, a fellow of the Manhattan Institute. 

“337:365 – the lips, the teeth, the tip of the tongue” by cavale is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

We are constantly told that the Gender-Affirming approach is “life-saving.”

Transgender Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services Rachel Levine used the same word to justify the federal government’s support for “gender affirming” interventions. Neither Levine nor President Biden, who has given his own imprimatur to the controversial practice, seemed to care much that Europe’s most progressive welfare states have been moving in the opposite direction, placing strict limitations on the use of puberty blockers to treat adolescents in distress presumably because of their “gender.” Scandinavians are not indifferent to teen suicide. Rather, they have examined the evidence behind the affirm-or-suicide claim and have found it wanting.

Despite the unwaveringly confident manner in which these claims are often asserted, there is no good evidence that failing to “affirm” minors in their “gender identity” will increase the likelihood of them committing suicide. As I discuss below, that claim is based on a small handful of deeply flawed studies that, at most, find loose correlations between “affirming” interventions and improved mental health. Some find no reduction of suicide at all, and a new study claims to find that puberty blockers actually increase the risk of suicide.

Not only is the empirical basis for the affirm-or-suicide mantra shoddy at best, but its dissemination is also profoundly irresponsible. Such extreme rhetoric limits our ability to better understand and respond to mental health problems in vulnerable youth, and may itself contribute to the real and documented phenomenon of “suicide contagion.”

Source:  Leor Sapir

Sapir gives us a thorough rundown of the current science on gender-dysphoria and suicide. And calls on the Activists to stop the moral panic-mongering.

Hyperbolic rhetoric about suicide rates may do more to increase suicide than prevent it.

Pediatric Gender Medicine and the Moral Panic Over Suicide

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