British Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Tuesday that the way the nation’s healthcare system currently handles cases of children with gender dysphoria is “bordering on ideological.”
Responding to a question, Javid told MPs that he shared concerns about the NHS insisting on children’s perception of their own gender as a starting point for treatment, describing the approach as “overly affirmative.”
The NHS has commissioned a review into its own gender identity services, the Cass Review, with an interim report published last month.
James Sunderland MP raised the findings of that interim report with Javid.
“The Cass Review interim report found that to date there is a profound lack of evidence on the best approach to treat gender dysphoria in children,” Sunderland told the Commons. “Does my right honorable Friend share my concern that in spite of this the NHS insists on making a child’s expressed gender identity the start-point for treatment, and my surprise that the NHS has chosen so far not to track patient outcomes, particularly for under-18s?”
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