The health secretary believes under-18s are wrongly being given gender hormone treatment on the NHS and is concerned the current system is 'failing children'.
"That overly affirmative approach where people just accept what a child says, almost automatically, and then start talking about things like puberty blockers - that's not in the interest of the child at all," they added.
Referrals have increased 50-fold in the last decade, with far more female children coming forward - a reversal of what happened previously.said"we need to be more careful"He said it is"absolutely right" that conversion therapy is banned"for LGB people" but said a"more sensitive approach" needs to be taken when it comes to those who are transgender., which had been first set out in 2018 by then prime minister Theresa May.
"When it comes to conversion therapy, it is absolutely right, as the government has said, that we ban the so-called conversion therapy for LGB people," Mr Javid told Sky's Kay Burley in an interview earlier this month.A 'more sensitive approach when it comes to trans'
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