Tavistock Center’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), the United Kingdom’s first and largest gender clinic for children, is scheduled to close in 2023.
The closure of Tavistock’s gender identity clinic comes after the publication of an independent review funded by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).
The report cited a lack of conclusive evidence about the benefits of hormonal treatment in gender-affirmative care, signifying at least a partial retreat from using medical and surgical means as part of the clinic’s gender-affirmative approach to treating minors.
It is unexpected that Europe, the seedbed of gender-affirmative ideas such as the “Dutch Protocol,” has also become the first place to halt its growth….