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Youth gender services in Queensland are seeing twice as many patients as they were two years ago. Doctors say it is an essential service that is "not taken lightly".

The case of the UK’s Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has led some to question how much information is available to Aotearoa families on the health ministry's services

Clinical judgements and the clinical counselling at the Tavistock Centre, which since 1989 has provided the UK’s only gender identity clinic for children and young people, now seem set to be examined by the courts in clinical negligence claims brought by some former patients.

JOANNA Cherry and the former leader of the Scottish Greens have called for the closure of a leading gender identity clinic for young people.

Clinic accused of rushing children ‘into taking life altering puberty blockers without adequate consideration or proper diagnosis’

There are warnings that having just one gender identity service provider is 'not a safe or viable long-term option' amid a huge spike in referrals

Recent court rulings vindicate a woman’s right to believe that biological sex matters

Tavistock and Portman trust’s clinic will shut and two services will be set up in hospitals in London and north-west England

The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

Data must be provided on the experience of children undergoing care, says health secretary

Clinics ’overly affirmative’ and ‘ideological’ in agreeing to life-altering puberty blockers, health secretary believes