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The Beginning of the End of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’?
A general view outside The Tavistock Centre on July 29, 2022 in London, England. (Guy Smallman?Getty Images)
Britain is closing the infamous Tavistock Centre. Finland and Sweden have radically revised their treatment guidelines. But American doctors are advertising surgeries to children on TikTok.
By Lisa Selin Davis
07.30.22 — International
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Over the past three decades, the Gender and Identity Development Service at the Tavistock Clinic in London has seen thousands of British children for gender dysphoria, with a British minister noting a more than 4,000 percent increase of referrals for girls alone in the last decade. But on Thursday, Britain’s National Health Service announced that it was…

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Lisa Selin Davis
Author of novels BELLY and LOST STARS, and nonfiction books TOMBOY and HOUSEWIFE. At work on a book about the youth gender culture war. Co-host, Informed Dissent pod.
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