Britons seeking gender reassignment treatments have surged in number over the last decade. Referrals to all 14 of the UK’s gender identity clinics (GICs) have seen a rise, with several reporting upticks of 700 percent.
According to figures obtained by the Guardian through the Freedom of Information Act, London’s Charing Cross Clinic, Britain’s oldest and largest adult center, has seen referrals nearly quadruple in the last decade, from 498 in 2006-07 to 1,892 in 2015-16.
England’s only center for children and adolescents, the Tavistock Clinic, reported a 50 percent increase in referrals each year since 2010-11 and an unprecedented spike of 100 percent, from 697 to 1,398 referrals in the last year.
A Nottingham clinic experienced a 28-fold increase in referrals in eight years, up from 30 in 2008 to 850 in 2015.
“It obviously can’t continue like that forever because we’d be treating everyone in the country, but there isn’t any sign of that leveling off,”James Barrett, consultant psychiatrist at the Charing Cross Clinic, told the paper.
Dr. Leighton Seal, a consultant endocrinologist at the Charing Cross Clinic, attributes the rising figures to increased acceptance.
INC News, 11/07/2016 - source: ©RTNews
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