U.K. to Perform Mental Health Evaluations on Children with Gender Dysphoria

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The U.K.’s National Health Services reportedly will start advising clinics to assess children who identify as transgender for mental health problems and other conditions.

The new guidelines come in the wake of the U.K.’s decision to shutter its transgender clinic in 2022 and stop giving puberty blockers to children last year.

A government investigation revealed healthcare professionals at the NHS’s Tavistock gender clinic pressured families into subjecting their children to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones despite an obvious lack of scientific evidence and inadequate mental health screenings for children with gender dysphoria.

Since then, medical professionals have written extensively about the harm that these gender-reassignment procedures caused.

Under the new NHS guidelines, children in the U.K. with gender dysphoria would be assessed for ADHD, autism, learning disabilities, or mental health problems. These assessments could help identify underlying causes of a child’s gender dysphoria.

All of this underscores why it is so important that lawmakers in Arkansas overwhelmingly passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act in 2021.

The SAFE Act is a good law that prevents doctors in Arkansas from performing sex-change surgeries on children or giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Since then, reports from Europe and elsewhere have shown time and again that Arkansas was right to pass the SAFE Act.

Unfortunately, the SAFE Act has been tied up in court since 2021. However, we believe our courts ultimately will recognize that the SAFE Act is a good law and uphold it as constitutional.

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In “Refreshing Return to Sanity,” President Trump Orders Government to Protect Kids From Sex-Change Procedures

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On Tuesday, the Trump Administration issued an executive order protecting children from puberty-blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change procedures.

In 2021 Arkansas passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act protecting children from these procedures. Since then, some two dozen states have followed suit. However, laws like Arkansas’ faced stiff opposition from the Biden Administration — which spent four years pushing one pro-LGBT policy after another.

President Trump’s executive order helps reverse the previous administration’s flawed policies.

The order prohibits federal funding from being used for sex-change procedures on kids — including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries.

Medical institutions, and facilities who receive federal research or education grants must “end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children” immediately.

The order also directs federal agencies to revoke pro-LGBT policies that were based on guidelines from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) — an organization that the order says “lacks scientific integrity.”

Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Sharp called the executive order “a refreshing return to sanity,” saying:

“Not a single dollar should be spent to facilitate or push vulnerable kids towards experimental, often irreversible, drugs and surgeries. Instead of being a global outlier, America will now ‘follow the science,’ like the U.K. and other European countries have done, to ensure that we are identifying safe and effective ways to help kids who experience distress over their biological sex.

“The president’s order affirms that the federal government is standing with detransitioners and families hurt by gender transition drugs and surgeries. That includes supporting a legal remedy for those who have suffered at the hands of doctors who have pushed junk science on vulnerable kids. And it directs the Department of Justice to work to ensure that states like California and Minnesota can’t strip parents in other states of their parental rights for safeguarding their children from life-altering hormones and irreversible surgeries. We applaud President Trump for fulfilling his promise to America’s families and taking these critical steps to protect children from harmful, experimental, and often irreversible medical procedures.”

We have written before how files leaked from WPATH make it clear that medical professionals have been fully aware for some time that sex-change procedures can lead to lasting regret and complications — some of which may even be life-threatening. WPATH kept promoting these procedures anyway — and government officials continued to look to groups like WPATH for guidance.

Since 2021, a major hospital in Sweden has announced that it would no longer give puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids, the U.K. has adopted policies that protect children from puberty blockers, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration added a warning label to puberty blockers after discovering they caused some biological girls to experience swelling in the brain.

It is past time for our state and federal laws to protect children from these dangerous hormones and surgical procedures. President Trump’s executive order helps do exactly that.

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