The National Health Service in the U.K. will now test all transgender children for neurodevelopmental conditions, according to The Telegraph.
All serious data about transgender youth shows that gender dysphoria is correlated with autism, ADHD, anxiety and other conditions but physicians have ignored that and treated the gender dysphoria primarily through medicalization and surgery. Since the publication of the Cass Report, physicians can no longer ignore this and push children into gender transition without treating underlying conditions.
The new NHS policy is to “evaluate each child’s mental health, their relationship with their family and their sexual development, including whether they are experiencing same-sex attraction.” Transgender children will have a “multidisciplinary team” of experts to this end. It’s about time!
