A British gender reassignment clinic was recently ordered to close due to safety concerns, as doctors gave hormone drugs to children without adequate consultation and investigation. According to a lawyer, the number of families who want to take legal action against the clinic may be even more than a thousand.

In England, there is the infamous Tavistock clinic, which became known for helping to change the gender of countless children. However, the institution was recently closed after several complaints were received that after just one consultation, the children were given anti-puberty drugs, which started their gender change.

Several families are now planning to take legal action against the clinic, Tom Goodhead from the Pogust Goodhead law firm spoke about this. According to him, more than a thousand families are expected to join the lawsuit against the institution. Speaking to The Times, Goodhead highlighted that children and young teenagers were given gender reassignment treatments without any proper therapy or professional involvement. As a result, patients underwent interventions with irreversible effects in many cases.

One of the best known is the case of Keira Bell, who in 2021 sued the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust herself after claiming that

the clinic pretty much forced her to undergo gender reassignment at the age of 16.

At that time, as a youngster, Keira was confused, which the doctors did not notice or simply ignored. However, the young woman regretted her decision to change gender a few years later - her body underwent such irreversible changes.

According to Keira Bell, as a result of the treatments

he no longer has breasts (because he had them removed), and he has a deep voice for a woman, a beard and thick body hair. In addition, the interventions had a negative impact on her sex life, and who knows what consequences her body will bear.

In relation to the operation of the clinic, several people expressed concerns that the topic of treatments and gender dysphoria had become politicized, as well as that drugs were prescribed to children even for minor gender differences - for example, if a little girl did not like pink ribbons and dolls. According to calculations, the number of girls diagnosed with gender dysphoria at the clinic has increased by 5,000 percent in the past ten years.

The closure of the Tavistock institution was finally ordered by the British health service, the English branch of the NHS, as a result of an independent investigation. According to the opinion given by Dr. Hillary Cass, the treatments were neither safe nor a sustainable option in the long term. At the same time, the clinic will remain open until next spring, after which it will be replaced by smaller, local alternatives, i.e. it will not disappear completely.

Source: Magyar Hírlap

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