Soaring number of children in UK seeking help over gender identity – charity | Reuters

By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of children in Britain contacting a helpline with concerns about their gender identity has more than doubled this year with some as young as 11 telling counsellors they feel "trapped in the wrong body", a charity said on Tuesday.Childline, a service run by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), said it held a record 2,796 counselling sessions about gender identity and gender dysphoria in 2015/16 - equivalent to nearly eight a day.Gender dysphoria is a mental health condition in which a person feels their identity does not match their physical body. The charity could not explain the rise in requests for help - mainly from children aged between 12 and 15

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