![]() ![]() Why had the patients changed so dramatically? Were all these distressed young people actually best served by taking puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones? While some young people appeared to thrive after taking the blocker, many seemed to become worse. In the same period, the number of referrals has exploded, increasing thirty-fold, while the profile of the patients has changed, from largely pre-pubescent boys to mostly adolescent girls, who are often contending with other difficulties. But in the last decade GIDS has referred more than a thousand children, some as young as nine years old, for medication to block their puberty. ![]() The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), based at the Tavistock and Portman Trust in North London, was set up initially to provide ― for the most part ― talking therapies to young people who were questioning their gender identity. ![]() Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service for children. ![]()
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