The NHS have decided that there is no minimum age before a child can begin treatment for gender dysphoria. Freedom of Information requests seen by the Telegraph have revealed that toddlers under the age of five are being treated in new specialist gender clinics. The health service had previously proposed that referrals could only be made for children over the age of seven, but after pressure from activists this has now been dropped.
The treatment of ‘transgender toddlers’ is not the only cause for alarm
The Cass review was thought to be a turning point for child safeguarding. The government then started making positive sounds on puberty blockers and women’s single sex spaces. Was this a new dawn? However, underneath the surface, trans activists have continued to shape public policy, to the detriment of children’s safety.
It should go without saying that a minimum age of seven for gender treatment is already far too young.
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