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Medical Group Backs Youth Gender Treatments, but Calls for Research Review
August 4, 2023
Media
In the media
In June, England’s National Health Service announced that it would restrict the use of puberty blockers to clinical trials because “there is not enough evidence to support their safety or clinical effectiveness as a routinely available treatment.”
In the media
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… systematic review, “the risks of puberty-inhibiting and … that it would restrict the use of puberty blockers to clinical trials because …
An English Ruling on Transgender Teens Could Have Global Repercussions
December 12, 2020
Spotlight
In 2018 Andrea Davidson’s 12-year-old daughter, Meghan, announced she was “definitely a boy”. Ms Davidson says her child was never a tomboy but the family doctor congratulated her and asked what pronouns she had chosen, before writing a referral to the British Columbia Children’s Hospital (BCCH). “...
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… had offered our child Lupron”—a puberty-blocking drug. “They brought … not have allowed her to take puberty blockers and later undergo …
Mental and Emotional Health of Youth after 24 months of Gender-Affirming Medical Care Initiated with Pubertal Suppression
May 16, 2025
Studies
As part of the NIH-funded Trans Youth Care US Study, pediatrician Johanna Olson-Kennedy and colleagues report on the mental health outcomes of a cohort of 94 children and adolescents (ages 8–16) who received puberty blockers (PB) for gender dysphoria (GD). The participants were recruited from...
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… for suppression of endogenous puberty. This analysis aimed to … initiation. Youth with precocious puberty or pre-existing osteoporosis … poor, it is likely that puberty blockers prevent the deterioration …
Summary of Key Recommendations from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen/NBHW)
February 27, 2022
Spotlight
In February 2022, the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (NBHW) issued an update to its health care service guidelines for children and youth <18 with gender dysphoria / gender incongruence. This update contains 14 distinct “recommendations,” with justification for each, referencing a...
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… target hormonal interventions: puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. … that the experience of natural puberty is a vital step in the … target hormonal interventions: puberty blockers and cross-sex …
Early Social Gender Transition in Children is Associated with High Rates of Transgender Identity in Early Adolescence
May 6, 2022
Spotlight
A recent study published in Pediatrics examined the five-year gender identity development trajectory of trans-identified children who underwent early social gender transition. The study suggests that children who claim a transgender identity and undergo early social transition rarely...
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… initiated interventions with puberty blockers (29%) and cross-sex … with their sex during puberty, making “watchful waiting” – …
The Dutch Studies and The Myth of Reliable Research in Pediatric Gender Medicine
January 11, 2023
Spotlight
A new open-access publication focuses on the two Dutch studies that gave rise to “gender-affirmative” care for youth worldwide, identifying profound problems and drawing the "gold standard" into question.
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… to have definitively proven that puberty blockers and cross sex hormones are … 12 months of “treatment” with puberty blockers and cross-sex …
What Went Wrong at the Tavistock Clinic for Trans Teenagers?
July 1, 2022
Spotlight
The Tavistock Centre in northwest LondonROMAS FOORD; GETTY IMAGES
For me it began with a graph. In 2017, I was shown a chart of children referred to GIDS, the Tavistock and Portman Trust’s Gender Identity Development Service clinic in northwest London. Overall case numbers had...
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… would grow up a lesbian. But then puberty loomed. Now at secondary … daughter was recommended for the puberty-blocking drug Lupron – a … identity and proceed towards blockers, or one who “in stealth” …
Clinical Damage: The Tavistock Clinic’s closure follows a damning report on ideological malpractice
August 2, 2022
Spotlight
The damage done is immeasurable. No one knows how years of ideological dogma, inappropriate treatment and a culpable failure to consider the overall mental welfare of the children treated by the Tavistock Clinic will affect the thousands referred to its Gender Identity Development Service....
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… clinic’s reckless prescription of puberty blockers, ministers have shut it … to question the reliance on puberty blockers, analyse the …
Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria
December 8, 2021
Spotlight
In "Clinical and Ethical Considerations in the Treatment of Gender Dysphoric Children and Adolescents: When Doing Less Is Helping More," psychologist David Schwartz, Ph.D. exhorts clinicians to treat children and adolescents with gender dysphoria using psychotherapy rather than pharmacological...
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… genetic make-up of the child, or puberty blockers, are all clinical practices … we are instigating.” Although puberty blockers are promoted as “a …
The NHS Ends the "Gender-Affirmative Care Model" for Youth in England
October 24, 2022
Spotlight
Following extensive stakeholder engagement and a systematic review of evidence, England’s National Health Service (NHS) has issued new draft guidance for the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors, which sharply deviates from the “gender-affirming” approach.
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… made by a centralized Service and puberty blockers will be delivered only in … process . The NHS states that puberty blockers can only be …