Surge in girls switching gender: Gilligan in The Times

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www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/surge-in-girls-switching-gender-c69nl57vt

Glad the papers are reporting on this.

And where is Penny Mordaunt’s promised research into the causes of this?

And where is Penny Mordaunt’s promised research into the causes of this?

It has to be coming up to a year since she announced the research, but I don't know the planned time frame.

Heartbreaking, these girls are not boys but we have created a climate where we are unable to help them as that is deemed transphobic.

Does anybody have a share token for this please?

Thank you Gasp 😘

Great reporting - keep holding the Government to account about the lack of research and action on this. The age and sex of referrals must start causing concern. A 3 year old for god’s sake.

The sharetoken isn’t working for me. Does anyone have another?

Here you go:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/surge-in-girls-switching-gender-c69nl57vt?shareToken=7153621be0e68900068668cd34b331fd

Thanks Rabbit!

The youngest patients were three? Fucking three? That's made me feel quite sick. Actually nauseous. It's grotesque to think of a child that age having any sort of gender awareness, FFS.

It's like the toddler on the 4th Wave Now blog whose parents decided he was really a girl because he kept unpopping his babygro. They interpreted this as meaning he wanted to wear a dress, ignoring the fact that girl toddlers also wear babygros.

Another powerful article by Andrew Gilligan. More truly shocking reporting that's I'm happy to think is being read by the influential people who read the Times. Because I don't think most readers will be anything but appalled.

Thanks for sharetoken searabbit. I was really struck by the huge difference in referrals for boys and girls. The number of boys referred was the same as last year so the rise in referrals was entirely due to the increase in referrals for girls. Obviously I did know about the rise in the number of girls wanting to transition because of this board but did not realise the scale.

I was slightly confused by the figures until I realised that many 17 year olds are no longer counted. So about 2500 children (0-16) are referred and about 3/4 are girls.

If that figure is constant year on year (it doesn't show signs of decreasing) my rough, back of a fag packet calculation is that

1 in every 200 girls in the UK will be referred to GIDS before they are 17

Yet the powers that be don't consider this an epidemic?

I'd be grateful if anyone fancies checking that calculation
UK population approx 66 million
19% 16 or under
Half girls
17 years between birth and 17th birthday

Crowd funder for 'top surgery in 5 days', a 20 year old FFS. Heartbreaking.
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Oh no that is very worrying. Younger and less able to think for themselves what might be underlying their dysphoria or what they are trying to escape by adopting a new identity.

There should be no such clinic, in my opinion. It's horrifying to think of young children going through gender reassignment. If they waited until they were adult, they might change their minds.

I despair at the medical staff who are prepared to carry out treatment and procedures - are they experimenting on kids with government sanction?

Thanks for the share.
The figures are disturbing. That 1 in every 200 really hammers it home.

I remember seeing on Twitter a chart showing the difference between boys snd girls year on year - the gulf is starling.

Where is the investigation, Penny?

Thanks Andrew if you're reading this. Another powerful piece. Keep on unearthing what they're burying from us.

startling not starling!

As autocorrect fails go, that's a particularly charming one HandsOffMyRights.

I like starlings.

1 in 200 is really frightening. Poor girls.

Thingybob I think the proportion may be even higher than you fear as you have used UK population but from the article:

"Gids said the age and sex figures were for English patients only,"

I went into Foyle’s yesterday. At the entrance to the children’s section was a book about gender identity aimed at 3+. Which, if I remember rightly, means that only very young children will read it/have it read to them.

The book said that adults guess your gender by looking at you when you are born, but if you like ‘these things’ you can see what you are really.

Why do trans-identified females use the euphemistic term “top surgery” rather than the medically accurate “double mastectomy”, I wonder?

Surge in girls wanting drastic surgery to mutilate their bodies.

Thank-you for that Payfrozen, it's scary to realise I underestimated

Also am I correct in thinking we don't have published figures for all the 17/18/19+ year olds being treated on the NHS? I'm guessing that if we did the figure would be closer to 1 in 100 girls!