Printed from: https://archive.cmf.org.uk/advocacy/submissions/?id=189
Published: 20th April 2016
NHS England recently launched a 30 day public consultation on a number of new product proposals for specialised services, including the prescribing of cross-sex hormones as part of the Gender Identity Development Service for Children and Adolescents. The specific NHS proposal was NOT to lower the age from which treatment with cross-sex hormones may be given to adolescents with gender dysphoria, namely their 16th birthday plus or minus a month.
CMF supports their proposal and the consultation gave us an opportunity to comment more generally on the approach to, and management of gender dysphoria in adolescents.
Steven Fouch (CMF Head of Communications) 020 7234 9668
Alistair Thompson on 07970 162 225
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