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The Importance of Being Gay in Gender Clinics
Many young people refer to gender clinics are same sex attracted or a bisexual. The data that we have from JIDS is that of those referred in 2012, so more than a decade ago now. Around 90% of the girls were samesex attracted or bisexual and about 80% of the boys,. So it's still very, very high. And this was a concern that many, many clinicians had. It wasn't that they would dream of telling a young person, no, your identity is not what you think it is, you're gay. We weren't seeing something that wasn't there.