TheGender Identity Development Service (GIDS), run by the Tavistock and Portman National Health Service (NHS) Trust in the UK is offering appointments, diagnosis, and even medication for children who are "transitioning" because they suffer from gender dysphoria. The children in question can be as young as three years old.

The Daily Mail reported, "last year 2,590 children were referred to the clinic, a rise of more than 400 per cent since 2013, leading to a two-year waiting list." This waiting list is one of the reasons the clinic will now offer online treatment. "Ten of the children were aged three or four and dozens more were of primary-school age. The treatment includes giving the children hormone-blocking drugs."

Puberty-blocking drugs are highly controversial and can lead to infertility and sterilization. A review of the scientific evidence for this procedure was done byPaul W. Hruz,Lawrence S. Mayer, andPaul R. McHugh and found that "the evidence for the safety and efficacy of puberty suppression is thin, based more on the subjective judgments of clinicians than on rigorous empirical evidence. It is, in this sense, still experimental yet it is an experiment being conducted in an uncontrolled and unsystematic manner. In their detailed and meticulously-researched article, they raise troubling questions in regards to side-effects and consequences of using puberty-blocking drugs.

Even as experts are sounding alarm bells about the safety of such drugs, the doctors of NHS are increasing the number of children they prescribe them to exponentially by adding "telemedical" appointments to their process.

A spokesman for the Tavistock and Portman Trust told The Daily Mail they are "using digital technologies to increase efficiency and to enhance patient experience where appropriate is an area of development across the NHS." They went on to say, "The Trust is working to minimise waiting times and make clinical support easier to access, including eliminating travel time for young people and their families, which will also allow us to offer appointments earlier and later in the day."

The clinic is offering this "sex change by Skype" in the middle of rising controversy from psychologists and other professionals who say these methods are rushing children towards irreversible consequences. Some experts are calling this method child abuse. PJ Media's Tyler O'Neil recently spoke to Dr. Michael Laidlaw, an edocrinologist, who says these drugs are giving children a disease.

"I call it a development blocker its actually causing a disease,"Dr. Michael Laidlaw, anindependent private practiceendocrinologist in Rocklin, Calif. who consults with Sutter Roseville Medical Center, told PJ Media. The disease in question is hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. It occurs when the brain fails to send the right signal to the gonads to make the hormones necessary for development.

The rush forward to add more and more children to an untested experiment that can cause lifelong injury is a head-scratching fact of modern medicine. The BBC investigation video below shows that dangerous practices in this area of medicine are continuing without pause.One can only hope that the victims who will be injured by these experiments will file lawsuits to finally put an end to it.

Megan Fox is the author of Believe Evidence; The Death of Due Process from Salome to #MeToo. Follow on Twitter @MeganFoxWriter

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UK Gender Clinic Will Push Kids to Puberty Suppression Online - PJ Media

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