Cass review set to confirm shift in NHS care for children with gender dysphoria Findings are due to be published from review by consultant paediatrician that has already had significant impact The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2024
Why the Tavistock gender identity clinic was forced to shut ... and what happens next The clinic at the heart of a heated national debate formally closes this weekend. The journalist who told the inside story of its practice reflects on those it leaves behind The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2024
What are puberty blockers? UK government bans sale of medications to under-18s The ban only applies to new patients Evening Standard · Mar 13, 2024
The Observer view: schools guidance on gender identity could help us move on from this toxic debate Draft is an important first step towards putting wellbeing at heart of approach that should be taken with pupils The Guardian - UK · Dec 24, 2023
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 · Oct 27, 2023
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 · Oct 22, 2023
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 · Oct 18, 2023
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 · Sep 17, 2023
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 · May 9, 2023
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) · Mar 12, 2023
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) · Feb 16, 2023
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 · Feb 14, 2023
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 · Jan 27, 2023
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 · Nov 27, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Nov 24, 2022 ‘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
ABC News · Aug 20, 2022 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".
The Conversation · Aug 15, 2022 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.
The National (Scotland) · Aug 15, 2022 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 · Aug 11, 2022 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 · Aug 2, 2022 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 · Jul 31, 2022 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
The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2022 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 · Jul 28, 2022 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 · Apr 24, 2022 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 · Apr 23, 2022 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