And more specifically ask questions about why, no one was raising questions with child protection services over a 12 year old boy going abroad without courts being involved and a proper discussion going on about what was in the best interests of that child by social services.
It does not ban parents taking their children oversea for medical procedures etc, but it would oblige better scrutiny of such actions. And it goes past the trans argument.
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It asks specific questions of Tavistock GIDS if they decide for ethical/protocol reasons not to offer a course of treatment to a child where is the continuing care for a child when parents/carers seem intent on obtaining medication/surgery either at private clinincs or abroad?
There have already been serious concerns raised about the lack of follow ups when treatment is offered but what when treatment has been refused (for specific duty of care reasons) and there are legitimate concerns that parents will continue to seek treatments for their child?
I've just posted this on a current thread but seems relevent here:
This documentary about Jackie Green's quest to win a beauty pageant (aged 18) is really worth watching:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkWv9cbda4c
In the documentary above it is important to be aware of the role that Dr Spack played in influencing and impacting both Susie & Jackie Green.
He has talked about how he deliberately prescribed cross sex hormone so that Jackie would not reach her natural height.
He is seen talking with Jackie Green and thanking her as she has helped his work. Susie Green also talks about how Dr Spack absolutely affirmed her child's belief at a very difficult time for the family & how important this relationship was.
His influence on the family as well as Mermaids charity is considerable and seems yet to gain much attention
From Daily Mail 2016:
'The woman who used to be a boy is now at the heart of a controversy over children as young as nine given drugs to change sex'
(extract)
"Scientific research on the impact of the hormone treatments on a young body is sparse. Some parents nevertheless ignore the NHS age rules and buy the hormones online or take their child to private clinics in the UK, the U.S., Holland or Germany.
Helen Webberley, a GP in Wales, has set up a gender clinic where a ‘handful’ of children have been put on cross-sex hormones, including a 12-year-old boy who was born a girl. According to Dr Webberley, this child had been on ‘blockers’ since the age of nine and did not want to wait until 16 to bring on his male puberty.
"The evangelist-in-chief for early medical intervention is 73-year-old Dr Norman Spack, a paediatric endocrinologist at the Boston Children’s Hospital in America. He is also the guiding light of Mermaids and a friend of both Susie Green and Dr Webberley.
He wants children who identify as transgender to routinely be given hormone-blocking drugs around the onset of puberty, and then move to high doses of hormones to change their sex, after which they can consider surgery.
The Spack philosophy is that age limits are arbitrary and often cruel. ‘Why wait?’ is his mantra. He says he has put ‘about 200 children’ onto hormone blockers, and claims 100 per cent have gone on to take cross-sex hormones because ‘no one changes their mind’
But other medics, such as Dr James Barrett, a consultant psychiatrist at London’s Charing Cross gender identity clinic, warns of the dangers of starting irreversible treatment too early."
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3973036/Jackie-Green-heart-controversy-children-young-nine-given-drugs-change-sex.html
There is a clip somewhere (not sure if it was the TedTalk?)of Susie Green in conversation with Dr Spack where he happily talks of deliberately restricting Jackie Green's height because she would have been 'too tall' for a woman.