The UK’s National Institute of Health has decided to shut down its only gender identity clinic for children following in an independent review, citing “insufficient evidence” regarding the impact of puberty blockers and “considerable risk of distress and deteriorating mental health.” Complaints were also raised by whistleblowers, patients and families. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the Biden administration is pushing the trans agenda on kids, despite an FDA warning of intracranial pressure from puberty blockers.
Using children as guinea pigs to promote a radical transgender agenda is physically and psychologically damaging to them, not only immediately, but also in the long term. No one knows yet to what extent. This should be obvious, but the woke movement continues to harm the most vulnerable.
“NHS to close Tavistock gender identity clinic for children,” by Andrew Gregory, Guardian, July 28, 2022:
The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children at the Tavistock and Portman NHS foundation trust after it was criticised in an independent review.
Regional centres would be set up to replace the service and “ensure the holistic needs” of patients are fully met, NHS England said, after being warned that only having one provider was “not a safe or viable long-term option”.
The Tavistock clinic, named the Gender and Identity Development Service (Gids), was launched more than three decades ago to help children and other young people struggling with their gender identity.
But in recent years, concerns have repeatedly been raised about the service. Inspectors rated it “inadequate” after complaints raised by whistleblowers, patients and families….
It followed recommendations from Dr Hilary Cass, who is leading an independent review of gender identity services for children and young people.
She said there was a need to move away from a model of a sole provider, and instead establish regional services to better meet patients’ needs.
In her interim report, released in March, she wrote: “It has become increasingly clear that a single specialist provider model is not a safe or viable long-term option in view of concerns about lack of peer review and the ability to respond to the increasing demand.”
Cass said there was “insufficient evidence” for her to make any firm recommendations around the routine use of puberty blockers. She told the NHS to “enrol young people being considered for hormone treatment into a formal research protocol with adequate follow-up into adulthood, with a more immediate focus on the questions regarding puberty blockers”….
Cass said this was leaving young people “at considerable risk” of distress and deteriorating mental health….
Westman says
Government fiddling with engineered young lives was a theme in Aldous Huxley’s, “Brave New World”. This is a companion to Orwell’s, “1984”.
Here is an insane idea for the UK school system: Just include puberty blockers in government supported school lunch programs as a solution to the pregnancy drop-out problem. Students could be instructed that their sexual identity is fluid and androgynous uniforms are to be worn. Within a generation the only problem the UK will have is defeat and occupation by enemies.
mortimer says
It is unethical for a doctor to treat a perfectly healthy young body with dangerous drugs or to remove perfectly healthy organs.
Sexual dimorphism is normative in most of the animal kingdom and is so in humans. Humans have two X chromosomes or one X and one Y chromosome.
A man can no more ‘transition’ into a woman than a tall Norwegian can ‘transition’ into a pygmy.
Trannies who try to ape the appearance and mannerisms of women, are no more than female impersonators who have taken it to extremes. They have taken their fantasy of ‘transitioning’ to extremes, but they have no dna evidence that the fantasy is has become a dna reality.
James Lincoln says
mortimer says,
“It is unethical for a doctor to treat a perfectly healthy young body with dangerous drugs or to remove perfectly healthy organs.”
Yes.
And it should also be considered to be medical malpractice.
gravenimage says
+1
Don McKellar says
A factory to destroy children’s lives and bodies before they even get old enough to make mature decisions on their own. How much more evil can you get?
somehistory says
They are “shutting it down”….but the abuse won’t end…it will just be spread out so more *witch-doctors* can be involved in the abuse, and perhaps, abuse more children for a longer time. More *specialists* can get some of the do-re-me- that’s being doled out to the quacks.
This is demonic. and who gets to treat the kids later on when they figure out what was done to them and they need some serious counseling on how to live as a disfigured, and ruined-for-being a biological parent, person?
gravenimage says
Likely so, Somehistory.
tim gallagher says
This concept of doctors not doing harm to people sometimes seems not to apply at all. It always seemed to be a terrible idea to be damaging very young people’s lives in irreversible ways at this clinic. maybe they thought that some children would commit suicide if they didn’t treat them, so they thought that they were doing the right thing. Then again, I suppose that there are some doctors, hopefully a rarity, who really don’t give a damn about people.I heard that the woman who launched a lawsuit in the UK after wanting to return to being a woman is now sterile because of the treatment she was given. Good to see the place shut down.
somehistory says
But, Tim, they are opening more of such places in order to be ‘fair’ to everyone.
If a kid believes that they should be the opposite of what they are, why not give them placebos until they grow out of the nonsense? there’s no money in that, is there?
tim gallagher says
Yeah, I wonder if it is just about the money that can be made from some of these treatments of children who are too young to make such decisions. There’s a lot of different areas that doctors can work in, so I would think that most doctors would stay away from areas like this, where they can be harming young people. I do find this whole transgender fashion, which is what it seems to be lately, very strange and hope that it will disappear to some degree soon. I suppose for some on the left, it is really an attempt to destroy traditional ways of living and the traditional family way of living. It is going to wreck a lot of young, confused people’s lives, that’s for sure.
Keith O says
If my memory serves me correctly, weren’t Nazi “doctors” doing the same sort of inhumane chemical experiments on children back in the 1940s?
Now this grotesque behaviour has just been repackaged by the “woke” mob and social engineers.
At some point in the future these fanatics will, hopefully be dragged before a court and held to account for the destruction of so many innocent lives.
gravenimage says
UK shuts down children-only transgender clinic after complaints from whistleblowers, patients and families
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Glad it’s been shut down.
If adults decide to do this after due consideration–and at their own expense–fine.
But children who have not even sexually developed yet? This is child abuse. Many children are easily influenced, and go through phases. For them to make decisions that cannot be undone is utterly insane.
James Lincoln says
Perfectly stated, gravenimage.
My compliments.
Andrew Blackadder says
Any Adult thinking a child, A CHILD, can make such a life long decision as to what sex they THINK they are today are just as crazy as the child and such actions should ONLY be allowed when that child becomes an Adult, like 21 years old and NOT 5 years old.
This is beyond belief these days that so many kids and and Adults who want and even support their child changing their sex and even taking them into Adult Gay Clubs and have them hand money to some Drag Queen.
Has Planet Earth shifted slightly off its Axis while I wasnt looking ?.