Because of the toxicity of the debate, [children have] often been bypassed by local services who've been really nervous about seeing them. So rather than doing the things that they would do for other young people with depression or anxiety, or perhaps undiagnosed autistic spectrum disorder, they’ve tended to pass them straight on to the Gids service.
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Gids = Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock Centre (which closed following the recommendations of the Cass Review's interim report); GP = General practitioner, known as a family doctor or primary care physician in the United States. The term Asperger syndrome was formerly used to describe ASD.