Major U.K. Report Finds Pediatric Gender Medicine Is Based on ‘Remarkably Weak Evidence’

Four years in the making, the report has firmly established new, cautious policies on treating youth gender distress in England that are an ocean apart from the liberal treatment practices prevalent in blue U.S. states.

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The Tavistock Centre was previously the location of the only youth gender clinic in England. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

A new era in the care of children and adolescents with gender-related distress has begun in England, where a government-appointed team has published a mammoth report critiquing this controversial and politicized branch of pediatrics.

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