WARNING: This story contains discussion of suicide.
Elisha Dacey’s 15-year-old is caught in a care gap: too old to be accepted at one gender transition Winnipeg clinic, too young to get in at another.
“They were right in that sweet spot of technically not getting or qualifying for any kind of public health, so that was frustrating and demoralizing,” said Dacey. “Since then we’ve still been just waiting.”
The Gender Diversity Affirmation and Action for Youth clinic (GDAAY) helps children and young teens transition.
It used to help patients up to the age of 15, but has reduced the age referral criteria by one year to 14.
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