Britain tries to correct the treatment of gender-dysphoric kids
But puberty blockers are still available from private providers
“YOU ARE the expert in your gender experience.” So says GenderGP, a private provider of cross-sex hormones. This is a nod to the “affirmation” model of transgender medical care, which originated in America and uses a patient’s self-diagnosis as the starting-point for treatment. It is also, inadvertently, a nod to gender stereotypes. Humans are male or female and some have more of the traits that are traditionally associated with the opposite sex than others. A small number, some of whom feel great distress, believe these traits define their “gender” and take drugs or undergo surgery to make them resemble the opposite sex.
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Britain January 20th 2024
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