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Dad of a #Trans child. He/him. www.growinguptransgender.com. @dadtrans on twitter
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Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.
“The worst thing I’ve ever experienced” – comparing experiences of affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare provision for trans adolescents in the UK
Within trans youth healthcare two fundamentally different models of care persist, with a significant difference between affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare services. To date there has been l...
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January 12, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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The article also evidences the benefits of affirmative healthcare provision.

All interviewees had positive experiences of affirmative GP-led care at WellBN in Brighton.

That service has been consistently attacked by NHS England & Sussex ICB for providing affirmative care. 3/4
January 12, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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The quote in the title "The worst thing I’ve ever experienced" refers to a young teenager's experience in the new NHS gender clinics for under 18s.

The article evidences the many harms within these clinics that were designed, post Cass Review, to be less affirmative than the older GIDS service 2/4
January 12, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Love that I've met most of these amazing people in person and shared messages with majority of the rest.
January 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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We made it very clear in a response to the Mail that this individual had no association with BASH BACK, it seems the Daily Mail's Martin Beckford values endangering vulnerable people over telling the truth

Shame on him. Shame on the Daily Mail. Shame on Toby Young and his FSU.
January 11, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Protest placards printed off by GATE
January 10, 2026 at 12:39 PM