from The Christian Institute
A new study on children identifying as ‘transgender’ has no minimum age limit and is expected to have 3,000 participants.
The Pathways Horizon project, run by King’s College London, is an observational study monitoring children receiving treatment in NHS gender clinics, due to start this autumn. It was revealed that children as young as three have been seen at these clinics. The study aims to add good quality evidence for the treatment of children for gender dysphoria, and will contain ten times as many child participants as any previous research.
Last year, Dr Hilary Cass’s review concluded that care for children experiencing gender dysphoria is “an area of remarkably weak evidence” and criticised the Tavistock gender clinic for not collecting data on the children it treated. It recommended further research into the topic.
Gender-related distress
Chief Investigator of the Pathways Horizon study, Professor Emily Simonoff from King’s College London, said: “PATHWAYS HORIZON will closely follow the quality of life, physical and mental health of young people accessing the NHS Children’s and Young People Gender Services throughout the study.