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Doctors will no longer encourage gender-curious children to use preferred pronouns or dress as opposite sex under NHS guidelines
NHS to consider risks of social transition in youth questioning gender identity
Social transitioning can include changing name, pronouns, and crossdressing
New guidelines say it can have significant effects it on a child's psychology
They also say most children will not commit to gender changes in their teens
By John Ely Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline
Published: 13:16 EDT, 21 October 2022 | Updated: 13:16 EDT, 21 October 2022
Doctors will no longer encourage gender-curious children to use the pronouns of their preferred identity.
New NHS draft guidelines will also discourage the act of children dressing in clothes of the opposite sex.
Health chiefs say 'social transitioning' should be no longer be viewed as a 'neutral act' due to the significant effects it may have on a child's psychology.
Social transitioning refers to a person being treated as the gender different to their biological sex but without medical interventions like controversial puberty blockers or hormones.
This can see people change their name, their pronouns and dress in clothes usually associated with their opposite sex.
Their family, friends and school are encouraged to be supportive of this process.
At the extreme end of the scale, social transitioning can see people controversially use the bathrooms or changing facilities of their believed gender identity.
But now NHS England's draft approach calls on clinicians to recognise most cases of 'gender incongruence' in children are just a phase...
Doctors will no longer encourage gender-curious children to use preferred pronouns or dress as opposite sex under NHS guidelines
NHS to consider risks of social transition in youth questioning gender identity
Social transitioning can include changing name, pronouns, and crossdressing
New guidelines say it can have significant effects it on a child's psychology
They also say most children will not commit to gender changes in their teens
By John Ely Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline
Published: 13:16 EDT, 21 October 2022 | Updated: 13:16 EDT, 21 October 2022
Doctors will no longer encourage gender-curious children to use the pronouns of their preferred identity.
New NHS draft guidelines will also discourage the act of children dressing in clothes of the opposite sex.
Health chiefs say 'social transitioning' should be no longer be viewed as a 'neutral act' due to the significant effects it may have on a child's psychology.
Social transitioning refers to a person being treated as the gender different to their biological sex but without medical interventions like controversial puberty blockers or hormones.
This can see people change their name, their pronouns and dress in clothes usually associated with their opposite sex.
Their family, friends and school are encouraged to be supportive of this process.
At the extreme end of the scale, social transitioning can see people controversially use the bathrooms or changing facilities of their believed gender identity.
But now NHS England's draft approach calls on clinicians to recognise most cases of 'gender incongruence' in children are just a phase...
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