Fascinating charts track the explosion of gender-questioning youth in the UK over the past few years.
More than 5,000 referrals were made to the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) in 2021/22, compared to just a few hundred a decade earlier.
Girls have accounted for an increasing proportion of the total.
Almost two-thirds of referrals in recent years were in teenage girls.
For comparison, boys made up the vast majority when NHS medics were offering gender care to children and young people a decade ago.
The statistics formed part of the bombshell Cass review, which ruled that staples of NHS treatment of trans youth – like doling out puberty blockers and sex hormones – were built on ‘shaky foundations’.
A damning 400-page dossier by respected paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass found such treatments have little evidence of positive outcomes or safety in the long term.