A group of senior clinical psychologists has issued a statement following a damning report which revealed that ‘medical’ treatment of transgender children in the UK was being carried out on ‘shaky foundations’. He apologized for the role his profession played in promoting it.
at the joint letter published by left wing Guardian’s sister paper observerThe 16 anonymous “senior clinical psychologists” who prescribed life-changing puberty-blocking drugs to hundreds of children actually worked at the now-discredited Gender Identity Disorder Development Service (GIDS) clinic. These included people who said their professions were at the forefront of pushing children. In that direction.
“These were psychology-driven services. Intentionally or not, and despite many people doing their best in impossible circumstances, they were almost impossible to challenge. “It was clinical psychologists who promoted this ideology,” they write.
“It is also our professional body, the British Psychological Society, that has failed to produce guidelines for clinicians working with young people in this complex area. , he calls for minimizing his own role in events and “strengthening psychology even more” as an answer. We are ashamed of the role that psychology has played,” the group added.
They said what happened at the GIDS clinic was a “multi-causal systemic failure”, but that people in the psychological profession should be “fully examined” and held accountable for the role they played. Many people pointed out that “appropriate evaluation could not be conducted.” It targeted troubled young people and put many on an ‘irreversible medical pathway’, which in most cases was inappropriate. and those who have failed in their most basic duty of keeping proper records. ”
The admissions followed a National Health Service-backed report by eminent paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, which found that given that many prescriptions were unwarranted, the NHS They argued that puberty-blocking drugs should no longer be offered to children under the age of 10. “It’s built on unstable foundations.”
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The Kass report goes on to say that there is little evidence to support so-called “gender-affirming” claims that hormone-altering treatments have improved children’s mental health, and that such drugs have little to no effect on “cognitive function and mental status.” He said there has been little research into the potential impacts. Psychosexual development of children according to age”.
She further argued that because many children naturally overcome feelings of gender dysphoria, “medical measures are not the best way to manage gender-related distress for most young people.”
A preliminary version of the report has forced the NHS to order the closure of the Tavistock Center and the controversial Gender Identity Development Services Clinic, which served as the nation’s top clinic for transgender children. Mr Cass argued that the treatment offered by Tavistock was “not a safe or viable long-term option” for children.
The clinic has long faced criticism for the apparently lax standards used to determine whether children are showing signs of being transgender, and is a former Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. The governor, Dr. David Bell, in a whistleblower complaint in 2022 revealed that his staff made such decisions on flimsy questions, including whether young girls had shown no interest in “pink ribbons or dolls.” Based on evidence.
Last year, a review of a 2011 study by University College London Hospital (UCLH) and the Tavistock Center claimed that puberty blockers do not adversely affect the psychological functioning of 12- to 15-year-olds. The results of that study were overturned. In their original claim, University of Essex psychology professor Susan McPherson and social scientist David Friedman found that 34 per cent of children given puberty-blocking drugs instead had a “certain worsening of their mental health.” ” I discovered that.
While much in the United States continues to advocate medical intervention for children identified as transgender, there is a growing consensus in Europe against this practice, with developed countries such as Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom supports medical intervention. Everyone started to limit Transgender treatment for children. Last month, a report commissioned by French senators claimed that providing life-changing transgender drugs to children would be remembered as one of the “biggest ethics scandals in the history of medicine,” and that France would do the same. requested that this practice be restricted.
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