A review into NHS gender identity services for children found they were being affected by a lack of expert agreement about the nature of problems, a “lottery” of care and long waiting listsVulnerable children are wrongly being given gender hormone treatment by the NHS, Sajid Javid believes, as he prepares to launch an urgent inquiry. The health secretary thinks the system is “failing children” and is planning an overhaul of how health service staff deal with under-18s who question their gender identity. SponsoredJavid is understood to have likened political sensitivities over gender dysphoria to the fears of racism in Rotherham over grooming gangs. Sajid Javid thinks the system is “failing children” REUTERSClinics in London, Leeds and Bristol run by the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust are England’s only specialist services for children and young people who identify as transgender. Critics have accused the trust of rushing children into life-altering treatment and being too willing to give puberty blockers to young teenagers.

Source: The Times April 23, 2022 08:02 UTC