Thread from April 10th 2024
"Children's gender identity clinic concerns go back 15 years" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54374165 by Hannah Barnes, BBC Newsnight, 1st October 2020
This week saw the long awaited publication of the Cass Review report:
The Review was commissioned by NHS England to make recommendations on how to improve NHS gender identity services, and ensure that children and young people who are questioning their gender identity or experiencing gender dysphoria receive a high standard of care, that meets their needs, is safe, holistic and effective.
Referrals of Irish children to GIDS at the UK's Tavistock: see table below
The Gender Recognition Act was passed in 2015. Children's Health Ireland hospital at Crumlin said:
"Tavistock commenced receiving referrals from the HSE’s Treatment Abroad Scheme in 2009".
Tavistock later corrected this claim:
By contrast, a retrospective survey in 2014 of adults attending St. Columcille's Hospital in Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin with suspected or confirmed gender dysphoria found the prevalence was 73% men.
This over-representation of girls, which Dr Cass also found in her report published today, continued to be mirrored in the later figures (up to February 2023):
164 girls,
74 boys.
The youngest referred: a 5 year old girl.
The numbers actually seen were less than referrals but girls still predominated with three 7 year olds the youngest seen:
Four years ago the Irish Mirror reported that
"Six out of ten children referred back to Children’s Health Ireland Hospital at Crumlin receive psychosocial support while 40% receive medical treatment such as puberty blockers."
Is there any reason to doubt that young Irish women have also had their breasts removed?
"Scottish doctors approved breast removal for 51 trans teenagers" https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scottish-doctors-approved-breast-removal-for-51-trans-teenagers-qvkmz8r2c September 21st, 2021
And what private providers are operating in this area in Ireland?
