Now you have to wait until you’re 7 to get trans treatment in the UK

For more than a year now, we’ve been praising the health services in Great Britain over their decision to pull back from “gender transition care” for children, starting with the closing of the Tavistock gender clinic last summer. (And there were many very good reasons to shut that clinic down.) The Brits were following a pattern that’s been showing up in other European nations including Sweden and Denmark where nearly all transgender “care” for children has been put on hold while clinical studies are conducted. That’s why I was rather surprised to see a headline yesterday suggesting that the British National Health Service would be funding “transgender treatments” for children provided they are at least seven years old. But as it turns out, there is a bit more to the story than the headline would suggest and it’s not nearly as bad as it looks at first glance. (Zerohedge, emphasis added)Read More