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Topics related to gender identity – and issues that are relevant to many trans people’s lives – have thankfully been receiving greater attention in the UK in recent years. This includes increasing interest in our service and what we do.
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On Thursday 3 August 2023, NHS England published their Interim Clinical Policy on Puberty suppressing hormones for children and adolescents who have gender incongruence/dysphoria Read the policy on the NHS England website.
On Friday 9 June 2023, NHS England published their Interim Specification for specialist gender incongruence services for children and young people. They also published the results of the public consultation into the specification. This specification will apply to the new phase 1 services. Read the specification on the NHS England website. Read NHS England’s announcement […]
Seeking support in difficult times We know that young people are experiencing uncertainty about the future of care at the moment. There is also currently a great deal of unsupportive coverage about trans lives in the media and online. Many young people and their families are experiencing particular distress and sadly in some cases hostility […]
NHS England has published a proposed interim specification for the new services for children and young people with gender dysphoria. It held a public consultation on the proposals, which closed on Sunday 4 December 2022. This public consultation was an opportunity to check whether proposals are right and supported, whether the public understand their impact, […]
At the end of July 2022, following further advice from Dr Hilary Cass, NHS England announced that it would be commissioning two ‘Early Adopter’ sites as a first step towards a new regional model of care for children and young people needing support with their gender identity development. These will be led by specialist children’s […]
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust’s statement in response to the announcement of a new model and Early Adopter services by NHS England following recommendation from the Cass Review. Last year, referrals to our Gender Identity Development Service stood at over 3,500. In addition, the referral support service set up by NHS England for […]
The Cass Review, which is looking at how to support gender-diverse young people across the health and care system, includes a research programme to improve the evidence in this area. This includes a project by the University of York to provide an evidence base of the different pathways the outcomes for all young people who […]
On 31 March the Government announced that the proposed ban on conversion therapy will not cover trans conversion therapy. We are disappointed at this decision. At the Tavistock and Portman we believe that talking therapy that has the intention of changing either someone’s sexuality or their gender identity should not be allowed, and should be […]
This afternoon, the Court of Appeal’s ruling in relation to the Trust’s appeal on the GIDS Judicial Review has been made public. You can read it in full on the Judiciary website. The appeal was heard in June by some of the most senior judges in the country. We are pleased that the Trust’s appeal has […]
