Comment: | The Gender Identity Development Service is for children and adolescents up to the age of eighteen who are experiencing difficulties in the development of gender identity, and their families. This may include children who are unhappy about their own biological sex and wish to belong to the other one. This specialist service is staffed by a multi-disciplinary group with contributions from child and adolescent psychiatry, psychology, social work, pyschotherapy and paediatrics.
The service also offers counselling to children of parents with transsexualism or other gender identity problems. Assessment and advice are provided to the courts at their request.
The Gender Identity Development Service is associated with the Department of Paediatric Endocrinology at the University College Hospital, London. |
