My Lords, we know that the 18 to 25 year-olds have many of the same complex problems as the under-18s and, as the Minister has said, they need similar holistic wraparound care, although that is not necessarily yet in place. However, Dr Levy’s review had a narrower remit than mine, focused on quality improvement rather than the model of care, so as a next step would the Minister agree to ask departmental and NHSE colleagues to convene a group, which should include independent experts, representatives of professional groups and representatives of the new children’s and young people’s services as well as service users, to consider how we best understand and, importantly, improve clinical outcomes for this group of young adults?

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[–] 9 points 4 days ago

Picking on suicidal kids is all the rage

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago

    Who could have seen this coming? /s

    First it was children, then teenagers, now young adults. Transphobes will not stop until trans people are eradicated.

    Don't. Give. One. Inch.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 days ago

    so you're gonna force them to look trans by fully developing bone structure and irreversible secondary sex characteristics of the sex they don't want, marking them for life and causing dysphoria, and it can only be partially reversed by painful and time consuming surgeries that are also far more expensive than simply getting them on blockers/HRT when puberty starts

    I fucking hate this world

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago (14 children)

    That would make it so much more difficult for people and cause so much needless suffering. I know people who left it late to start transitioning, and some of them struggle with regret that they didn't do it earlier while their body was still developing. Why should trans women who know as a teen that they want to transition have to suffer a decade of living with a body and an identity they find unbearable every day? How many more people will succumb to despair along the way? It's cruel, which I suppose is usually the point.

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    [–] 8 points 5 days ago*

    Absolutely infantalising horseshit. What a joke.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago

    yeah they'll do that and then they'll push it to 30 and eventually they'll just ban it fully. ukkk

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago

    Of course, by the age of 25, many will have solved their problem in their own way.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago

    I vote she keeps her bigoted bullshit out of my loved one's lives. Denying people medical care never makes anyone safer. See abortion bans etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    Seems too late. Just link it to the youngest age someone can join the military. If your old enough to kill and die in a warzone, you're old enough to seek medical treatment

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