‘Pro-trans’ website funded by NHS under investigation
by Laura Donnelly
Kooth site accused of directing users to information about hormone use and breast binding.
A teenage mental health service funded by the NHS is being investigated by health officials, amid accusations it is promoting the trans agenda and allowing the spread of dangerous anorexia advice.
The Kooth website, which is aimed at children aged 11 to 18, describes itself as an “online mental wellbeing community”.
But officials are examining safeguarding concerns, with accusations that those working for the site have directed schoolchildren to sites that promote the use of hormones and breast binding.
There are also concerns that the site’s moderators have allowed dangerous advice about anorexia to be shared, and failed to prevent young people bullying each other.
The website, which receives more than £3 million a year from the NHS, describes gender transition as “unique and beautiful”.
Critics have raised concerns that the service, used by more than 145,000 schoolchildren last year, has an agenda which affirms those who believe they are born in the wrong body.
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