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Government vows to uphold free speech in transgender treatment debate Officials have given assurances they will protect under 18s from 'irreversible decisions' amid fears from mental health professionals By Hayley Dixon,   SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT 10 July 2021 • 5:00pm The Government has vowed to uphold free speech in the transgender treatment debate as it suggested children should be protected from medicalisation. Responding to concerns that a ban on conversion therapy will criminalise professionals treating children with gender dysphoria, officials have given assurances that they will protect under 18s from "irreversible decisions". The Government Equalities Office vowed to safeguard young people "from inappropriate interventions and uphold the independence of clinicians". The comments came in response to a petition started by the Thoughtful Therapists, a group of mental health professionals, which warned that the ban on conversion therapy for LGBT people, pr...

  What the media gets wrong on gender reassignment The media is guilty of gross negligence on gender reassignment reporting June 20, 2021 | 9:47 pm FROM THE MAGAZINE Written by: Jesse Singal Share Two things can be true at the same time. First, the Republican-backed state laws banning medical gender-transition treatment for youth —  one  has already passed in Arkansas — are a very bad idea. Second, there is a serious dearth of solid evidence in this area of medicine — and some reasons to be genuinely concerned about these treatments. If you’re a consumer of mainstream American media, you’ve likely received a heaping dose of the first message. But the second, if you’ve encountered it at all, has probably been presented to you as a deeply unscientific, bigoted talking point. This is a problem. It’s impossible to unpack what’s going on here without summarizing the recent history of youth medical transition. The basic situation is this: in the mid-1990s, a Dutch gender clinic...