#LoveNotLies

Over the last decade, the UK has seen a 4,500% increase in referrals for children supposedly identifying as dysphoric and seeking reassignment.  As children grow up, it is normal for them to explore their identity and push boundaries – it’s part of finding out who and what they are – but what we are seeing today is nothing less than an epidemic of psychosexual identity dysfunction, fostered and promoted by activists seeking to justify and promote transgender behaviour.  While no one disputes the right of adults to choose such treatment, should they wish, current policy is harming children who are being wrongly diagnosed and pushed prematurely into life-changing and irreversible treatments.

Research shows that between 64-90% of children exhibiting gender confusion will, by puberty – if given love, support … and left alone – cease to identify as transgender (https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/441784/the-controversial-research-on-desistance-in-transgender-youth ; https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gender-development-service-children-adolescents.pdf ).  This would suggest that at the very least extreme caution should be exercised in offering treatment for supposed gender identity disorder.  In recent years, however, it has become routine to offer puberty suppressants to children accepted as gender dysphoric.  This, despite the fact there have been repeated complaints these children have been inadequately diagnosed, with factors such as autism, abuse, sexual orientation (many such children grow up to be gay), and related mental health problems, overlooked or ignored (https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/gender-development-service-children-adolescents.pdf).

In 2019-20, 2,728 children in the UK were referred to the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) (https://gids.nhs.uk/number-referrals ).  The majority of these children were prescribed puberty blockers – to delay development of characteristics that gender dysphoric children find upsetting, and to make future treatment easier.   It is claimed that 97% of children who receive puberty blockers will, as teenagers, progress to hormone treatment (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/oct/07/court-hears-children-cannot-consent-to-puberty-blockers ).   Yet, as said above, between 70-90% of these children, without intervention, would by puberty have been happy with their birth sex.

This is a scandal.  Exact figures are not available from the NHS, but there is growing evidence that increasing numbers of children who receive gender reassignment treatment are subsequently seeking to detransition (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7541679/Hundreds-youths-gender-surgery-wish-hadnt-says-head-advocacy-network.html ).