The legal position on parental consent for puberty suppressing treatment in cases of gender dysphoria 26th March 2021 Update fron GIDS: The High Court has this morning handed down a judgment that confirms parents can consent on behalf of their child for hormone treatment to suppress puberty. Read the judgment on the Judiciary.uk website. The
Read More ...NHS England has now published its service specification, Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) for Children and Adolescents (PDF), and policy proposition, Prescribing of Cross-Sex Hormones as part of the Gender Identity Development Service for Children and Adolescents (PDF), following its consultation process. These documents do not adequately meet the needs of gender variant children and adolescents.
Read More ...Data regarding referrals to the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) for Children and Young People. Number of children and young people referred to GIDS 2003 – 2020 Number of referrals by Age – England only 2019-2020 Referrals to the Gender Identity Development Service by birth-registered sex, April 2011–April 2017 Data generated on 20 April
Read More ...Host Mirelle Harris explores sex and relationship education in schools. Are we delivering good quality teaching to young people or are we failing to give them what they need to make informed, healthy and safe decisions? The current Sex and Relationship Education Guidance was written in 2000, when the internet was in its infancy, there
Read More ...Informed Consent Forms are intended to protect both service users and clinicians by ensuring that proper information has been given and fully understood before embarking on treatment. The forms relevant to hormone treatment may be provided at the first appointment, so that service users have the opportunity to take the forms away and consider any
Read More ...NHS England’s consultation on ‘specialised gender identity services for adults (17 and above) has now closed. Through consultation we sought people’s views on two proposed service specifications: one for how Gender Identity Clinics will deliver specialised outpatient services; and another for how surgical units will deliver surgical interventions. There was a good level of interest
Read More ...Introduction Mermaids Charity was formed in 1995 with the following aims: To support children and teenagers coping with gender identity issues To offer support to parents, families, carers and others To raise awareness about gender issues amongst professionals and the general public To campaign for the recognition of gender identity issues and for an increase
Read More ...Read on for new (as yet unpublished) ‘desistance’ statistics from Australia (Spoiler: it may be as low as 4% ‘desistance’). The 85% ‘desistance’ myth Anyone with even a cursory awareness of issues relating to transgender children will have heard the 85% ‘desistance’ myth. Some old and flawed research studies, that lumped together large numbers of
Read More ...Original Document: GIRES – NHSE – Service Spec comments (DOCX, 51.2KB) 15 October 2017 The relevant paragraphs and appendices in the Non-Surgical (NS) and Surgical (SU) service specifications are noted within the following text. NHS England intends to subcontract the task of analysing the responses to its survey. Although this may be adequate for the tick-box
Read More ...A guide to hormone therapy for trans people This publication available in booklet form has been produced by a team thatincludes doctors and trans people to help you understand and answer some of your questions about hormone treatment for trans people. This publication gives trans men (female to male individuals) and trans women (male to
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