A new study has shown that there has been a 50-fold increase over a ten year period in children who believe they are the wrong gender – and that rates of anxiety, depression and self-harm were high for children and young people experiencing gender dysphoria.
The research, commissioned and funded by NHS England, and published in Archives of Disease in Childhood, found that an analysis of general practice records suggested there were 10,000 diagnoses of children (those under 18) with gender dysphoria in England in 2021 – up from fewer than 200 cases in 2011.
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