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Headline doesn't seem to match the content of the article. The big change is that gender dysphoric children will now be treated by medical doctors rather than t
by jobs_throwaway 4y ago
Headline doesn't seem to match the content of the article. The big change is that gender dysphoric children will now be treated by medical doctors rather than therapists and hormone specialists. I can't imagine how anyone would oppose such a change, absent an extreme bias towards transitioning.
- DanBC 4y ago"Hormone specialists" are endocrinologists are are qualified, trained, registered, doctors working within their expertise, and when they prescribe meds to a small number of people they're prescribing meds that are licenced to prevent puberty in children (albeit not in trans children) -- this is considerably better licensing that most paediatric meds.
- ryzvonusef 4y agoThe 'phase' terminology seems to be used by quite a few UK publications, or words similar to that effect.
- DanBC 4y agoBut not in the actual Cass Review interim report. The reporting was so bad she's had to issue a clarification letter.