A former nurse at the Tavistock gender clinic has claimed there is "no such thing as a transgender child" while expressing concerns about how children are being taught about transgender issues.
Sue Evans, speaking on GB News, said the ideology of transgenderism has been "pushed into the mainstream" and is now taught in schools, with books in nurseries telling children "you don't really have to be a boy or a girl".
Speaking on GB News, Sue Evans said: “I think what would have happened for years is that children, of course, when they're first in the world and learning about the world and learning about their own identity, they would have spoken with their parents, and they would have learned about boys and girls and mummies and daddies.
“I think that the issue that we have now, it's slightly complex, but I think because of the way the ideology of transgenderism has been pushed into the mainstream; it's taught at schools, there are books at nurseries saying you don't really have to be a boy or a girl or you might be in between, it's given young children a very confusing language and ideas.
A former nurse at the Tavistock gender clinic said that there "is no such thing"
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“In a way, I think they're being taught this. And it's not to say that in the past, children wouldn't have maybe come out with something about wanting to be a boy or a girl, whichever they weren't.
"But parents would have dealt with that in a low-key way, and maybe explore them as you would any idea.
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“But really, there is no such thing as a transgender child. Having said that, I do indeed meet children and young adolescents who really do feel very, very uncomfortable with the sex that they are.
“So whatever we call it, there are people who are really uncomfortable with their identity.
"The Cass report was a large report done several years ago after I did blow the whistle, and then we had the court case with Kiera Bell at the High Court for the judicial review.
“But she did a really important piece of work to look at the evidence base for this idea of treating because I felt very uncomfortable with younger people being given hormones. I thought it was very wrong.
"But she didn't get everything right, so I think it was a really important piece of work. And of course, that's just in my opinion.
“If she'd asked me, I would never have really gone along with the idea of developing more hubs similar to the Tavistock.
"They may well have, at the moment, better educational work going on with the staff who work there.
“But my worry is always that if you create this speciality, then somehow you've given the message to these children, if you've got this idea about yourself, you've got to go off to a special clinic.
“I think that the gender dysphoria or the transgender idea is a symptom of something else that's going on with the child.
"I really was hoping that we could always deal with this at primary and secondary level within the community mental health teams.
“But of course, there someone else would say, oh, but they're captured and that's true for some reason. This particular idea, this ideology, whatever you call it really caught fire.
"And so it became very contentious to say well, there might be something going on with this child. You were told, ‘you've got to believe them’. It's a problem.”
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Her comments come as it has emerged that the NHS will now treat children of all ages for gender dysphoria, removing a previously proposed minimum age limit of seven years old.
According to reports published in the last 24 hours, nursery-age children who identify as transgender will be eligible for gender treatment on the National Health Service, including therapy and counselling.
An inside source at the health service revealed to OB News that NHS England had "caved to the pressure" of transgender activists in making this decision.
The change follows a consultation process on draft guidance that was published in 2023.
While drugs such as puberty blockers are banned for children under the age of 18, the new guidance will allow toddlers to have access to therapy, along with their family.
