Mixed-up five-year-olds and the alarming growth of the gender identity industry: 20 years ago the condition didn't exist. Now British children are being puberty suppressing drugs on the NHS
By Paul Bracchi
Last updated at 2:27 AM on 25th February 2012
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The Tavistock Clinic is based in an anonymous concrete building in North London. Once there, you have to go to the third floor to find the Orwellian-sounding Gender Identity Development Unit.
The unit received £1,042,000 in funding last year from the local healthcare Trust. In layman's terms, it treats patients who believe they are 'trapped in the wrong body'.
Few would associate such a place with children barely old enough to attend school.
But it emerged this week that a little boy called Zach Avery, just five years old, now wears his hair permanently in bunches after being assessed by 'experts' at the Tavistock and 'coming out' as a girl.
And Zach is not an isolated case.