{"id":199183,"date":"2019-12-13T08:42:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T08:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199183"},"modified":"2019-12-16T08:17:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T08:17:59","slug":"nhs-psychologists-are-over-diagnosing-gender-dysphoria-in-children-as-young-as-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199183","title":{"rendered":"NHS psychologists are over-diagnosing gender dysphoria in children as young as THREE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connor Boyd \u2013 Daily Mail Dec 12, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Since 2011, specialists at The Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service in London have seen more than 1,000 under-18s. Is it a coincidence that The Tavistock Centre was actually developed alongside its twin the Tavistock Institute, which is involved in mind control and social engineering? Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

NHS<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0psychologists are ‘over-diagnosing’ children with gender dysphoria over fears staff will be branded transphobic if they don’t, it has emerged.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ex-clinicians fear scores of youngsters could unnecessarily be being put on puberty-blocking drugs that warp their hormones every year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The concerns were raised by six psychologists who have resigned from London’s children’s gender-identity service in the past three years.<\/span><\/p>\n

They all claimed they were under such immense pressure they could not properly assess patients, in what they fear may be a ‘medical scandal’.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of them has admitted that looking back, they may not have given hormone-warping drugs to all of the children they diagnosed with gender dysphoria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thirty-five psychologists have resigned from London’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust since 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

Data shows the number of children treated at the service has exploded by more than thirty times in the space of a decade<\/span><\/p>\n

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The number of children treated at the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has exploded by more than thirty times in a decade – from 77 to 2,590<\/p><\/div>\n

The GIDS in Camden, north London, is where children with gender dysphoria are treated on the NHS.<\/span><\/p>\n

The service had 2,590 young patients referred to them last year, compared with just 77 patients a decade ago.\u00a0It sees children under the age of 18 and, in rare cases, some as young as three.<\/span><\/p>\n

One psychologist, who wished to remain anonymous, told Sky News<\/span><\/strong><\/a>: ‘Our fears are that young people are being over-diagnosed and then over-medicalised.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘We are extremely concerned about the consequences for young people… For those of us who previously worked in the service, we fear that we have had front row seats to a medical scandal.’<\/span><\/p>\n

n a statement, the GIDS said it ‘supports every young person on a case-by-case basis, as an individual’.<\/span><\/p>\n

It added: ‘GIDS takes a considered and thoughtful approach, and supports clinicians to engage openly and supportively with patients and parents.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘We have conducted exit interviews with all departing staff to understand their motivations and identify any areas of concern.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘The work is demanding and the pressures of operating in a busy service facing a high level of unfair criticism are intense, their motivations are as individual as they are.’<\/span><\/p>\n

People with gender dysphoria experience discomfort or distress because there’s a mismatch between their biological sex and identity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Almost half of children treated at the GIDS are prescribed hormone-blockers that halt puberty.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a fully reversible form of treatment because puberty will resume when the patient stops taking the drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n

This gives children the time to consider whether they truly want to make the transition to the opposite sex.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the drugs interfere with natural hormone production and can cause mood swings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another psychologist, who wished to remain anonymous, told Sky News they were in charge of 120 to 130 young people.<\/span><\/p>\n

They said this was three times the caseload psychologists are used to at other mental health services around the country.\u00a0They said it gave little time to properly evaluate patients.<\/span><\/p>\n

After taking puberty-blockers, the\u00a0next stage is hormone therapy. It sees youngsters take testosterone, if transitioning to a male, or oestrogen, if switching to female.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is normally not given to people under 16 because it is irreversible and can eventually make patients infertile.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gender-reassignment surgery, the final step in transitioning from one sex to another, is reserved for patients over 18.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having been born female, Leo was prescribed testosterone on the NHS ahead of his 16th birthday after being diagnosed with gender dysphoria.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was 14 when psychologists and doctors in the health service asked him to decide if he wanted children in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking on Sky News this morning, he said: \u2018If I couldn’t live my life as a male or have the body of a male I don’t think I’d be around by the age of 20, 30.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018When I started getting my periods it was an indicator that things weren’t going to change, puberty worsened my mental health, worsened my gender dysphoria. It was excruciating.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Leo described his experience at the gender identity centre as positive and said he was thoroughly consulted before getting a prescription for the drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Thomasin, who spent most of her teen years identifying as male, switched back to being a female this year at the age of 19.<\/span><\/p>\n

She was diagnosed with gender dysphoria by the Tavistock at 17 but was never prescribed medication.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomasin de-transitioned this year after realising she was struggling with her sexuality as a lesbian.<\/span><\/p>\n

She said she was glad she never took irreversible steps to become male. Thomasin said on Sky News this morning: \u2018Mainly the thing that was fuelling me was that I didn’t fit in and then I was slowly drip fed this idea that you could change sex.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018At 15 I wanted to have top surgery and be a man… it did feel scary at times because you’re going down this route of a medicalised pathway and I did have those little niggles in the back of my mind.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

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