Figures released to Peadar Tóibín
41,000 procedures on u-18s in last year alone
The HSE has confirmed that it will continue to facilitate medical interventions for children who are seeking to change their sex, despite the landmark Tavistock ruling in the United Kingdom which found that it was “highly unlikely” that children under 16 would be able to provide fully informed consent to the procedures involved. Tavistock is […]
The Tavistock Clinic, Britain’s only sex-change clinic for children, has been refused permission to appeal the results of the recent Bell -v- Tavistock case by the British Divisional Court. That case had found that children under 16 likely could not meaningfully consent to puberty blockers or sex-change hormones gives the immense impact the treatments could […]
In a welcome move, the Government has announced that this summer it will set out details of its plans to ban under-18s from undergoing sex-changes, with equalities minister Liz Truss saying that the development was about ensuring that under-18s were ‘“protected from decisions that they could make, that are irreversible in the future”’; she insisted: […]
Criminologist Richard Hoskins (56) has said he would have been saved from gender transitioning if he had been given adequate therapy to deal with his traumatic past.
A leading professor describes experimental sex-corrective treatment as one of the biggest scandals in medical history Extreme medical treatment for children with gender dysphoria is not just a problem in the English-speaking world. In Sweden, too, there has been an explosion of gender dysphoria. In 2003 only about ten children were diagnosed; in 2018, there […]