NHS England has announced it will be opening six new gender identity clinics by 2026.
The health service claims the new gender clinics will ‘provide tailored gender services,’ based on recommendations in the Cass Review.’
But rather than address underlying issues that may be causing a child to have feelings of ‘being in the wrong body’, as Dr. Hilary Cass recommended in April, the NHS appears fully set to promote gender ideologies even more among children and young people.
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The new clinics will reportedly focus more on providing a ‘holistic’ approach that includes supporting children with mental health conditions, which is in line with Dr. Cass’s recommendations.
But to open new venues with ‘gender’ in their titles will surely expose children to the possibility of embarking down the same old ‘trans’ pathway operated by the discredited Tavistock Clinic.
Dr Cass, former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, detailed in her 388-page report that there was ‘no good evidence’ for the medical push to transition children’s gender. The push had been ‘built on shaky foundations.’
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NHS statement
The NHS say: ‘Two new NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Services, led by London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, have already opened in April.
‘The NHS will continue to appoint up to six additional new specialist regional centres by 2026 – with the next new service in Bristol becoming operational by November 2024 and plans to mobilise a service for the East of England over the course of 2024/25.
‘Each of the new services will have a nominated paediatrician or psychiatrist who has overall clinical responsibility for patient safety within the service as it establishes a fundamentally different clinical model built on the strongest possible evidence base.
‘Young people referred into the service will have their wider health and care needs considered and assessed holistically.’
Whether anything will actually change, despite the fine words, is very much open to doubt. We explore why below.
Trial of Puberty Blockers
The NHS refers to documents it has published entitled ‘Children and young people’s gender services: implementing the Cass Review recommendations‘. These ‘set out the scope for further research, in line with key recommendations from Dr Cass, to evaluate all approaches to inform the best possible patient care.
‘These plans also set out that, subject to academic approval, recruitment to a clinical trial into the potential benefits and harms of puberty suppressing hormones for children and young people is likely to commence in early 2025.’
The trial is set to begin later this year, with children being recruited to it in early 2025. But surely one needs the pro-trans mindset seemingly embedded in today’s NHS to see any benefit at all in preventing children from achieving normal adulthood by stopping them going through puberty and growing up normally?
The biblical position
The Lord Jesus said clearly:
Matt 9:12b They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
The clinical trial, recruiting children to give them what amounts to a poison, is so unethical and immoral it could only happen in a system whose leaders, as the prophet Hosea said of those in ancient Israel:
Hos 4:10b … have left off to take heed to the LORD.
Chillingly, God says through Hosea in the same passage:
Hos 4:6b … seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Hosea’s prophecy is coming true in our day, calling us to prayer and witness.
Review led by gender fanatic
Alongside children and young people’s services, NHS England has also published plans for a review into adult gender services, following, it says, ‘recommendations from Dr Cass’.
The NHS claim this review ‘will look at the effectiveness, appropriateness and stability of each current service, and will be led by Dr David Levy, Medical Director for Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB, who will be an independent chair, supported by a panel of expert clinicians, patients and representatives from Royal Colleges and professional bodies.’
However, Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board has published a ‘Diversity and Inclusion Glossary‘ which defines ‘Cisgender’ as ‘A person whose gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth.’ It uses the same absurd ‘assigned’ expression elsewhere.
It defines ‘Gender’ as: ‘A social construct informed by the norms, roles and behaviours that we attribute
to being masculine, feminine or third gender.’ Furthermore, the term ‘Gender Reassignment’, it asserts, has been replaced by ‘Gender confirmation/affirmation’. It speaks of mutilatory mastectomy as ‘Top Surgery’.
This document must have been approved by the ICB’s medical director. It asserts that sex is ‘assigned’ rather than ‘discerned’ at birth, describes ‘gender’ as a ‘social construct’, that surgery can ‘affirm’ a delusion and believes there is ‘third gender’? In what way will Dr Levy be ‘independent’ of gender ideology?
‘Expanding NHS gender services’
Professor James Palmer , NHS medical director for specialised commissioning, gives the game away in the NHS press release when he says gender services will be ‘expanding’: ‘The roll out of new specialist centres in every region across England will be central to improving and expanding NHS gender services for children and young people, to ensure that they receive evidence-based, responsive, holistic care – and the Cass Review is the backbone on which our implementation plan is based.
‘It’s clear that our services for adults need focus too. The waiting times for care are too long and experiences of care are too variable. The review needs to address poor experience but also learn from good experiences of care. It’s vital we hear from patients and staff, some of whom have raised concerns to Dr Cass, and this review will be a further opportunity for them to be heard.
‘There remains considerable work to do, but we are already making progress on a number of Dr Cass’ recommendations, and our plans published, set how we will establish services that provide the care that patients and their families need to thrive.’
The nod to Hilary Cass must not blind us to what is happening here. It is ‘business as usual’ for the gender fanatics of the NHS.
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Feeling safe or promoting gender ideology?
Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said: ‘I am pleased to be working with NHS England to fully implement the recommendations from Dr Cass’s review, so that young people get the safe, holistic care and support they need. The unacceptable waiting times for gender services cause enormous distress to children and young people, at a crucial point in their lives.
‘As well as rolling out new services, NHS England is setting up a clinical trial to establish the evidence on puberty blockers, because children’s healthcare should always be led by evidence.
‘I want trans people in our country to feel safe, accepted, and able to live with freedom and dignity.’
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Dr Hilary Cass reacts
Dr Hilary Cass said: ‘I am pleased that NHS England is planning to fully implement the recommendations of my Review and the next important step will be the most challenging – turning it into a reality.
‘The vision of the Review – reflected in the implementation plan – is to increase available services for gender-questioning young people which take a holistic approach to care addressing the needs of each individual, and which put in place a full package of care which can be delivered as close to home as possible.
‘Setting up a new collaborative of regional providers will also bring in leaders from professional societies, education, and research, to ensure these services continue to develop in line with evidence and best practice to support children and young people.’
Royal Colleges Academy is pro-trans
Doctor Jeanette Dickson, Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, said: ‘We welcome these important steps towards implementing the recommendations of the Cass Review because at the heart of this are thousands of children and young people in need of care. The sooner we can make sure they are treated by the most appropriate professional in a way that’s right for them, the better. NHS England has moved with admirable speed, but we must keep the pace up if we are to help these patients in a timely and fair way.’
But inevitably, Dr Dickson’s ‘Academy’ is itself pro-trans. It wants a ban on ‘conversion therapy’, including consensual discussions around ‘gender’. It says: “Any legislation should ban ‘conversion therapy’ for all groups, including transgender people and adults, even where ‘consent’ may be provided.”
Poor Dr Cass. She thought it would all change, but she had not reckoned with the trans juggernaut. This will need much prayer.
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Read and pray
READ: Gen 1:27; Exod 18:20; Lev 19:35-37; Deut 18:9-13; Judg 2:10; Psalm 9:17; 144:15; Prov 14:34, 15:33, 22:28, 28:07; Isa 29:16, 45:9-10; Mark 8:38, 10:06; Col 1:15-17; Rev 19:15-16.
PRAY: For the NHS. Pray for the minds of our children .and young people. Pray for God to pour out his grace upon our leaders to replace their arrogance with humility.
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