Private Gender Clinic for Over-16s Seeking Hormone Treatment Approved

Published on January 17, 2024

A private clinic offering hormone treatment for gender-confused young people has become the first in the UK to be registered with England’s health care watchdog. The Gender Plus Hormone Clinic, which has branches in London, Birmingham, and Dublin, was registered to practise by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on Jan. 9. It comes just as the NHS Tavistock Centre is set to close in the spring following a series of scandals and a damning report that found it was “not safe” for children. The new clinic is part of the British and Irish private service Gender Plus, which offers young people questioning their gender identity psychological counseling for a fee of up to £275 for a one-hour session....

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