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Jump in counselling for UK transgender children wins LGBT praise

By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A growing number of children in Britain are being referred to the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) for counselling for transgender feelings, a development activists hailed on Wednesday as a sign of greater awareness of transgender issues. The number of children – under 11 and some as young as three – being treated at the country’s only specialist centre for children with

Jump in counseling for UK transgender children wins LGBT praise

By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A growing number of children in Britain are being referred to the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) for counseling for transgender feelings, a development activists hailed on Wednesday as a sign of greater awareness of transgender issues. The number of children – under 11 and some as young as three – being treated at the country’s only specialist center for children with