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For a year and a half, NRC observed the gender clinic in Amsterdam. ‘It takes so much time to prove I’m a woman’ (www.nrc.nl)

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Gender care: The treatment of trans youth with puberty blockers is a Dutch invention that is now used worldwide. However, in an increasing number of countries, there is growing debate about this ‘Dutch Approach’. NRC spent a year and a half at the oldest and largest gender clinic in the Netherlands, where this care model was developed in the 1990s. „They think you can just roll into a transition…

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[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We had a dutch friend who tried to transition once and this was what we heard about her experience, and worse things too.

[–] randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

My personal experience with the Dutch clinic; There were a number of gatekeepers at the helm of the Dutch clinic for the longest time. Some retired or died since, making way for a more progressive team. At least one such gatekeepers is still part of the team and is heavily partaking in rightwing koolaid, most notably about transgender youth healthcare, not really helping the situation. It took me 20 years of battling uphill to get where I needed to be. The current rightwing government is working to make things worse.