The care provided to young people with gender incongruence or gender related stress by the NHS is in limbo. In July 2022 NHS England announced its intention to close its only specialist youth gender clinic by the spring of 2023 and replace it with two regional services, the first of several. But this timeline looks highly unlikely. Families under the care of the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at London’s Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust say that clinicians have been le...
