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Britain changes tack in its treatment of trans-identifying children

It may not be in time to prevent lawsuits

Is britain tiptoeing away from a medical scandal? Until recently, many gender specialists in the National Health Service (nhs) treated trans-identifying children by broadly following an “affirmative” approach which accepts patients’ self-diagnosis as the starting-point for treatment. That can mean the prescription of puberty blockers from early adolescence, followed by cross-sex hormones.

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