Irish transgender teens sent to the UK for treatment by desperate parents

Even in society across the ocean progressives say it’s okay to be gender irrelevant.  Whatever a person thinks they are is okay.    

Irish Central  reports Irish teenagers with trans identities, who may at a later date want to change their sex, are being referred to a UK clinic for hormone blocking treatment to slow the progression of puberty.

The treatment helps them to reduce the amount of surgery they may need later in life if they decide to opt for a sex-change operation as adults.

According to the Independent, three Irish adolescents have recently been sent by the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) to the Tavistock Clinic in London for the kind of treatment that can help them cope by slowing the development of their sexual organs.

But many Irish parents are being forced to pay for the costly overseas treatment for their teenagers themselves, often having to buy the prescribed drugs via the internet, the paper claims.

Vanessa Lacey, the health and education officer for the support group Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI), told the Independent that some parents were often just trying to keep their child - trapped in the wrong body and traumatised by the onset of puberty – alive.

Lacey, 49, was born male and raised in Waterford city, but says her 'gender identity for as long as I can remember was female.'

Lacey went to a Catholic boys school and married a woman with whom she had two children. Six years ago, she came out as transgender and now lives as a woman.

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I guess gender certain counseling is out of the questions?