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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Less than half in Britain back gender-affirming care for trans teenagers

A trans pride march in London in 2022
A trans pride march in London in 2022. The 2021 census in England and Wales found 262,000 people identified as a gender different to their sex registered at birth. Photograph: Mark Kerrison/In Pictures/Getty Images

Less than half of people in Great Britain agree that transgender teenagers should be allowed to receive counselling and hormone treatment, polling suggests.

Britain placed 28th out of 30 countries for the proportion of people agreeing that teenagers with parental consent should be able to access “gender-affirming” care. Only Hungary, which banned transgender people from legally changing their gender in 2020, and the US recorded lower levels of support than Britain’s 47%.

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