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Delays, rows and legal challenges: inside the stalled new NHS gender identity service

Guardian analysis reveals chaotic efforts to open two units offering new treatments to children with gender dysphoria

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on gender dysphoria: criminalising therapy poses risk to children’s welfare

NHS England’s shift to a ‘watchful waiting’ brief on trans identity faces being undermined by campaigners seeking criminal ban on ‘conversion’ treatment

The Guardian - UK

New gender identity clinic openings further delayed

It was announced in July 2022 that the Gids service at the Tavistock and Portman Trust would be shutting down.

The Independent UK

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Teachers need guidance to resolve issues of gender identity in the classroom

Government must urgently plug the policy gap currently being filled by ideology

The Guardian - UK

Trust’s ‘challenges’ with managing gender identity service before closure

The Care Quality Commission said it wanted to ensure other services provided by the trust were continuing to deliver safe and effective care.

The Independent UK

NHS gender services team 'scared as political spin targets trans rights'

“THE climate we’re in right now, the entire team is scared.”

The National (Scotland)

Tories call for Tavistock-style probe into Sandyford gender clinic

THE Scottish Conservatives are calling for a Tavistock-style probe into the Sandyford gender identity clinic in Glasgow.

The National (Scotland)

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Open and calm debate needed on young people and trans issues, says author

A new book details what went wrong at the Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service for children, ahead of its expected closure this year.

The Independent UK

Gender identity treatment needs greater caution

Letter: Dr David Bell, former staff governor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS foundation trust, on its Gender Identity Development Service

The Guardian - UK

Sturgeon’s plans to reform gender law could leave Tories as the champions of women’s rights

The Scottish leader must take heed of changing views on the treatment of gender dysphoria

The Guardian - UK

‘An explosion’: what is behind the rise in girls questioning their gender identity?

As the NHS reviews gender referrals, parents, clinicians and young people reveal the social, medical and emotional challenges they face

The Guardian - UK

Queensland youth gender services seeing twice as many patients as two years ago

Youth gender services in Queensland are seeing twice as many patients as they were two years ago. Doctors say it is an essential service that is "not taken lightly".

ABC News

Staying informed on gender healthcare

The case of the UK’s Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has led some to question how much information is available to Aotearoa families on the health ministry's services

Newsroom.co.nz

Tavistock Clinic fallout: what the courts would consider in litigation by former patients

Clinical judgements and the clinical counselling at the Tavistock Centre, which since 1989 has provided the UK’s only gender identity clinic for children and young people, now seem set to be examined by the courts in clinical negligence claims brought by some former patients.

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Joanna Cherry and ex-Greens leader call for Sandyford gender clinic to close

JOANNA Cherry and the former leader of the Scottish Greens have called for the closure of a leading gender identity clinic for young people.

The Independent UK

Tavistock gender clinic facing legal action over ‘failure of care’ claims

Clinic accused of rushing children ‘into taking life altering puberty blockers without adequate consideration or proper diagnosis’

Manchester Evening News

Children's gender identity services moving to Manchester as long-running clinic shut down

There are warnings that having just one gender identity service provider is 'not a safe or viable long-term option' amid a huge spike in referrals

The Guardian - UK

Don’t buy the Stonewall line on gender identity? Fine. You can’t be sacked for that now

Recent court rulings vindicate a woman’s right to believe that biological sex matters

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NHS to close Tavistock gender identity clinic for children

Tavistock and Portman trust’s clinic will shut and two services will be set up in hospitals in London and north-west England

Evening Standard

NHS to close Tavistock child gender identity clinic

The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

The Guardian - UK

Sajid Javid plans review of impact of gender dysphoria treatment

Data must be provided on the experience of children undergoing care, says health secretary

The Independent UK

Sajid Javid prepares crackdown to make gender hormone treatment harder for children

Clinics ’overly affirmative’ and ‘ideological’ in agreeing to life-altering puberty blockers, health secretary believes

Evening Standard

Ban conversion therapy for LGB but not trans people, says Health Secretary Sajid Javid

The Government needs to be “more careful” about banning conversion therapy for trans people, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Monday.

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