Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what research they are conducting to improve the medical (1) assessment, and (2) treatment of, children presenting with gender dysphoria.

Last year the National Institute for Health Research funded a £1.3 million longitudinal research study, titled Outcomes and Predictors of Outcome for Children and Young People Referred to UK Gender Identity Development Services. The results of the study will be made available via articles and publications.

In parallel to this work NHS England has also asked the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to deliver guidelines that will define referral criteria into the Gender Identity Development Service. NICE will also undertake a thorough review of the latest clinical evidence to help inform NHS England and Improvement’s review of the service specification for gender identity development services for children and young people.