NHS Warns Against ‘Transgenderizing’ Children - Daniel Greenfield

 

by Daniel Greenfield

A “significant proportion of children” who are referred for treatment have neuro-developement issues or family or social problems.

 

American lefties used to love the NHS. They may not love it so much now.

Most children who believe that they are transgender are just going through a “phase”, the NHS has said, as it warns that doctors should not encourage them to change their names and pronouns.

NHS England has announced plans for tightening controls on the treatment of under 18s questioning their gender, including a ban on prescribing puberty blockers outside of strict clinical trials.

The services, which will replace the controversial Tavistock clinic, will be led by medical doctors rather than therapists and will consider the impact of other conditions such as autism and mental health issues.

Unlike a lot of the insanity that has overtaken the United States, that actually would be a science-based approach in keeping with medical ethics.

The proposals say that the new clinical approach will for younger children “reflect evidence that in most cases gender incongruence does not persist into adolescence” and doctors should be mindful this might be a “transient phase”.

Instead of encouraging transition, medics should take “a watchful approach” to see how a young person’s conditions develop, the plans state.

When a prepubescent child has already socially transitioned, “the clinical approach has to be mindful of the risks of an inappropriate gender transition and the difficulties that the child may experience in returning to the original gender role upon entering puberty if the gender incongruence does not persist”.

For adolescents, social transition will only be considered when it is necessary for preventing “clinically significant distress” and when a young person “is able to fully comprehend the implications of affirming a social transition”, says NHS England…

The proposals note that a “significant proportion of children” who are referred for treatment have neuro-development issues or family of social problems.

This was the conventional view of things a decade ago. This is also what activists concerned about this craze have also been saying.

Why can the NHS say this, but it’s off limits in the United States? For the same reason that the most prominent critics of it is J.K. Rowling, a British author.

Europeans are crazier than Americans when it comes to socialism, but Americans are crazier than Euros when it comes to identity politics. Race is much more toxic and encompassing in America. And so are the various political identities, including the latest one. The European Left still has stronger class warfare roots while the American Left has equated identity politics with liberation to such a degree that it’s wedded to it to a virtually inseparable degree. Bernie Sanders started out making the conventionalist hard lefty argument for class over race and  gender, only to retreat and completely adopt the positions that he had criticised.

The NHS might having a bit of a rethink, but don’t count on the AMA to do it too.

Daniel Greenfield

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/nhs-warns-against-transgenderizing-children/

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