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NHS gender clinic 'should have challenged me more' over transitionBy Alison HoltSocial Affairs Correspondent, BBC News 1 March 2020 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionKeira Bell: 'I should have been challenged on my transition'A 23-year-old woman who is taking legal action against an NHS gender clinic says she should have been challenged more by medical staff over her decision to transition to a male as a teenager.A judge gave the go-ahead this week for a full hearing of the case against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.Lawyers will argue children cannot give informed consent to treatment delaying puberty or helping them to transition.The Tavistock said it always took a cautious approach to treatment.The clinic based in Hampstead, north-west London, which runs the UK's only gender-identity development service (GIDS), added that it welcomed an examination of the evidence in this contentious area. NHS use of puberty blockers legal challenge begi…