UK media - Children and the Tavistock

A father has launched a last-minute legal action to stop his ‘vulnerable’ autistic son undergoing a sex-change operation next week.

Released documents show how closely the Tavistock gender clinic worked with campaigner Susie Green

NHS Trust has until May 5 to provide a new response to parent’s FoI request or ICO could write to High Court

A failure to maintain records on thousands of children seen by the Tavistock gender clinic has been described as a “monumental scandal” by the co-author of its

More than 1,000 children were referred for puberty blockers at an experimental gender clinic where concerns were ignored to preserve a “gold dust” NHS contract,

Female puberty is like being bundled into a runaway car. Let’s put aside periods, the shock of blood, the tsunami of emotions. Let’s concentrate on a girl of 1

Online clinic uses law firm to help youngsters legally change their titles on bank accounts and medical records

Met says it will investigate reports of chest binding as concerns grow following Telegraph investigation into Mermaids

‘Massive safeguarding red flags’ over the taxpayer-funded group lead to calls for an immediate investigation by the Charity Commission

LGB Alliance defends its charitable status at tribunal by criticising treatment at the NHS site

Scotland’s only clinic that helps people change gender has invited those who have reversed surgery because they were unhappy to explain how they feel they were failed by the service.It has emerged that the Sandyford clinic in Glasgow has contacted aggrieved former patients after a woman who regrette

Britain’s only NHS transgender clinic for children is accused of burying disturbing figures showing a third of its young patients are autistic. The finding has never been highlighted.

The Tavistock gender clinic is facing mass legal action from youngsters who claim they were rushed into taking life-altering puberty blockers.Lawyers expect abo

Keira Bell, 23, speaks outside of the Royal Courts of Justice after a High Court ruling on the use of puberty blockers.

Campaigners are appealing to the NHS to recall all former patients of a Scottish gender identification clinic for young people as part of a review

As the controversial Tavistock Clinic is forced to close, one young woman reveals how deeply ‘transitioning’ on the NHS affected her

Parents call for use of the drugs to be stopped immediately, following warnings they could affect parts of the brain

A controversial NHS clinic that led the way in prescribing puberty blockers to children who questioned their gender is being shut down. The gender identity deve

The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children after a review found that it failed vulnerable under-18s.The gender identity service at Tavis

The LGBT charity suggests nurseries are not doing enough to help very young children ‘recognise their trans identity’

Advice comes despite doctors’ warnings they are not qualified to treat such patients

More than a quarter of the almost 1,000 people accessing specialist transgender services here are children, the Belfast Telegraph has reported.

All children who have been treated for gender dysphoria in the past decade will have their medical records scrutinised in an effort to find out whether NHS serv

Michael Webberley’s treatment of 24 patients was deemed a ‘catalogue of failings’ and ‘fundamentally incompatible with being a doctor’

Female-to-male transgender surgery is to be offered for free by a new national medical service, it can be revealed.

Council chiefs faced criticism over their trans policy last night amid concern about the number of referrals to the only NHS gender service for children.

The Health Secretary has ordered officials to formally investigate the approach taken by NHS clinics amid warnings of harmful practices

Health Secretary Sajid Javid has slammed NHS gender services for children as he claims the Tavistock Centre’s controversial practices are ‘bordering on ideological’ and must not be a ‘one-way street’.

Vulnerable children are wrongly being given gender hormone treatment by the NHS, Sajid Javid believes, as he prepares to launch an urgent inquiry.The health

An NHS child psychiatrists’ conference on gender dysphoria was cancelled after transgender rights activists accused speakers of “extremism”.

According to new meeting minutes, around 5,500 children are on the waiting list for treatment at the controversial Tavistock and Portman Trust’s Gender Identity Development Service in London.

One line in the Cass report on GIDS (the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust) struck home with unusual force. It provoked

The NHS-backed report says a lack of formal clinical guidance and stifled debate has left many medics ‘nervous about offering the ‘more robust support’ they want to deliver.

The controversial Tavistock clinic faces a complete overhaul after a damning review found that its gender identity services are “not a safe or viable long-term option” for children and young people.The report has been hailed as a victory for whistleblowers who warned that the gender identity develop

Medics feel unable to query young patients’ choices, even when this is at odds with their clinical assessment and diagnosis

The NHS-backed report says a lack of formal clinical guidance and stifled debate has left many medics ‘nervous about offering the ‘more robust support’ they want to deliver.

Black Lives Matter’s ‘rainbow fist’ logos added to employees’ email signatures have been removed after a backlash from staff

Kate Grimes, who ran Kingston Hospital in south-west London, was told by an external recruiter not to ‘waste time’ applying for a senior role at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in London.

Girls who do not like pink ribbons or playing with dolls are being treated as transgender at the NHS Tavistock clinic, according to a whistleblower.Dr David Be

Dr David Bell, the NHS trust’s former governor, said under Stonewall’s influence, clinicians believe it is the ‘only acceptable explanation’

Leading charity urges the SNP government to go further than its current plans to lower the legal age from 18 to 16

The epidemic of anxiety among the young is laid bare in the largest survey of under-18s, which found that a fifth of children — and 40 per cent of 16 and 17-y

Campaign group warns under 16s being allowed to legally change their gender risks future regrets

More than 50 transgender boys under the age of 18 have been approved for double mastectomies in Scotland, it has been revealed.The figures, released under freed

The Court of Appeal has overturned a landmark ruling over the use of puberty-blocking drugs for children with gender dysphoria.Last year, the High Court ruled it was “highly unlikely” that a child aged 13 or under would be able to consent to the hormone-blocking treatment and that it was “very doubt

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A global expert on autism has warned in newly released legal papers that girls who are autistic or anorexic appear more likely to say they want to become boys.The evidence by Professor Christopher

What do you do if your 16-year-old daughter insists she wants to be a boy — and to take powerful drugs that stop her periods as the first step to developing a more masculine appearance?Mrs Y is the

The shocking evidence that convinced a High Court judge to effectively ban an NHS gender clinic from giving puberty-blocking drugs to children can be revealed for the first time today.

A senior psychiatrist who warned that a national gender identity clinic was failing vulnerable children faces disciplinary action by an NHS trust.David Bell, 70, a former staff governor at the

Standing outside the High Court yesterday, Keira Bell said that she hoped the judgment marked the end of gender clinics “playing God with our bodies [by] experimenting on the young and vulnerable with

When Victoria Gillick, a Roman Catholic mother of ten, came across a government circular advocating under-16s be prescribed contraception without parental consent, she was outraged. In 1983, her

A woman given hormones by the NHS to change her gender launched a legal challenge today to stop children receiving the same treatment unless ordered by a court.Keira Bell, 23, from Cambridge, who was

‘Mrs A’ fears her 16-year-old daughter will be fast-tracked for transgender medical treatment once she is seen by clinicians at the Gender Identity Development Service in London.

Some doctors felt children were referred for puberty blockers too quickly, it has emerged.

A landmark case to stop the NHS prescribing “experimental” puberty blockers to children who say they want to change their gender is to go ahead after judges gave it the green light last week.One of

A transgender clinic has been hit by 35 resignations in three years, as psychologists warn of “overdiagnoses” of gender dysphoria among children.

The Times today reports serious concerns about the functioning of the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Lucy Bannerman, the Times reporter, writes: “The Times has spoken to five clinicians who resigned from the service because of concerns o…

Imagine you have a child who says they believe they were born in the wrong body, describing what amounts to a fundamental and painful mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity. Imagine the child you see as your daughter declaring that they are in fact a boy. Where would you tu…