The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) supports gender diverse young people,
and their families but currently does not provide weekly psychological therapy as part of its …

This Special Issue of Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry includes a group of papers
that originated in the work of the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), which is the …

Western society recognises male and female sex from physiological attributes, such as
genitals and chromosomes.'Gender'is the social and cultural expectation of how males and …

We work in the UK service based at the Tavistock Centre in London, offering assessment
and intervention for children and adolescents experiencing difficulties with their gender …

This paper is adapted from a presentation first given at the 2017 Association of Child
Psychotherapists (ACP) Conference. We hope to give a feel of our work as psychoanalytic …

For children and adolescents presenting with gender identity-related concerns,
understanding whether or not the child or adolescent meets criteria for gender dysphoria is …

Young people are presenting to specialist gender services in higher numbers than before
and many with significant psychosocial difficulties. Negative experiences of stigma, difficult …

In a cisheteronormative culture, gender and sexual minorities (GSMs) may experience
additional challenges that get in the way of a meaningful life. It is crucial that clinicians are …

This chapter discusses the experiences of gender-variant children, the shortcomings of the
current psychiatric diagnostic classification system (DSM-IV-TR), 1 and research related to …

The rate of referrals to mental health services for children and young people for whom
gender dysphoria is the identified clinical issue has increased significantly over the last ten …