Debating the gender identity issue

THE Reuters report “Global backlash against conversion therapy gathers pace” (Sunday Star, Aug 19) is very one-sided. This is because at the other extreme of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issue, there are the so-called gender transition clinics, notably at Seattle Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Monash Health, Melbourne and various National Health Service Hospitals in the United Kingdom.

At these clinics, children as young as five years old who do not identify with the traditional definitions of male or female (gender nonconformity) are facilitated in their gender transition in a direction opposite to their biological sex.