I don't think there is a thread on this article yet. Please do correct me if I'm wrong and I'll delete this one.
This feels like a HUGE watershed moment for parents of vulnerable teenage children and young adults.
The preamble
There are plenty of threads on here which cover how children are being pulled towards believing that they may have a gender identity that differs from their sex. Most of this seems to happen in schools, where the influence of what they're seeing online becomes consolidated by staff Being Kind - and parents are then encouraged to embrace their child's new identity... and potentially reported to Children's Services if they don't.
The net effect is that many of these children enter legal adulthood believing that their concerned parents want to do them harm - by denying their authentic selves - and, from the age of 18, they have the autonomy to make decisions that they may not fully understand. In fact, it's earlier because cross-sex hormones are available from 16 in the UK.
This applies to autistic children and young adults too, despite the obvious red flags that you'd hope would be picked up by Educational Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists and Occupational Therapists regarding how autistic children might experience the physical and emotional changes in puberty as distressing and confusing. However, we know that autistic children and young adults are being failed here. So all hope is lost right....? They get to 18 and they're straight into the gender clinics getting "treatments"....?
The achievement
No! All hope is not lost. Here is the incredible story of how a family of an adult was able to get the gender clinic to back off. The logical conclusion is that the clinic was fearful of future litigation. Good 💪
https://www.pittparents.com/p/the-girl-in-the-tinkerbell-dress?r=n5nv9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
This has the potential to stop clinics from beginning a "gender affirming care" treatment pathway for vulnerable young adults. But it also has the potential to get them to back away even once care has started.
Here is a link to the survey that is referenced in the article:
https://genspect.org/resources/gender-dysphoria-support-tool/
Obviously it doesn't end for families when the clinic backs off - young people are still distressed and need support. But it's a significant step forward if that young person can't access irreversible medical interventions while they work through their distress.