A woman who underwent gender reassignment treatment but has sought to reverse the process is to lead a legal challenge [1] to practices at Britain’s first NHS child gender clinic.
Keira Bell, 23, was in her mid-teens when she was given hormone blockers and cross-sex hormones at the gender identity development service for children and young people run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS trust in north London.
She says she found the experience so traumatic that she has since de-transitioned and has become the figurehead for a test case that seeks to challenge the basis on which the clinic obtains consent for treatment for children, some as young as 12.