After the school published its latest GCSE results, the head clarified her stance on strictness, saying: ''An example of the mistake we make in thinking "strict and being in authority" is the same as "authoritarianism".

In its guidelines, WPATH cites two small studies published in recent years that it says "demonstrated good surgical outcomes, satisfaction with results, and minimal regret during the study monitoring period." Both studies followed up with patients an average of about 1.5 years after surgery. Research on long-term outcomes for patients who undergo top surgery as minors is limited.

land border back to Mexico, but allow up to 24,000 people from the country to apply for humanitarian entry into the United States by air. and Mexican authorities recently announced a new policy that would expel Venezuelans entering the U.S.

Angela Holleran (pictured), headteacher of All Saints Catholic Primary School in Bootle, Merseyside, sent parents a letter on Monday saying it was 'staggering' that 'many' of its children had not turned up to classes due to high winds.

For many, their worries were compounded when clinicians swiftly affirmed their childrens´ transgender identities and recommended medical intervention without fully assessing whether other potential underlying causes of distress were present.

Half of the Venezuelan refugee and migrant population across Latin America and the Caribbean cannot afford three meals a day and lacks access to housing, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), forcing many to resort to sex work or begging.

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In September, over 33,000 Venezuelan individuals were encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border - more than the number of unique crossers from Mexico and more than immigrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras combined, according to U.S.

Birbalsingh has been influential in Tory circles since winning a standing ovation at the Conservative Party conference after she delivered a damning indictment of 'utterly chaotic' state schools in 2010.

The letter continued: 'I'm always in awe when I see photographs of children and parents around the world who value education so dearly that they walk barefoot for miles or clamber over rubble, past bombed out ruins, in order to get to school.

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It helps that the other British children who come here have made them feel so welcome - they've really thought about what they must have been through.'  Olivia Firth, 24, the camp manager, said: 'We're all amazed by how resilient they are and how quickly they have fitted in.

Efforts by the government of Chavez's successor, Nicolas Maduro, to ease economic restrictions have alleviated shortages and fueled consumption in high-income brackets, but left the vast majority of the population making wages that fall well short of the cost of living.

The monthly minimum wage in the OPEC-member nation is around $15 while the price of a basket of goods covering the monthly needs of a family of five was around $370 at the end of September, according to the nongovernmental Venezuelan Finance Observatory.

Mexican authorities so far have given many of these individuals a deadline of no more than two weeks to leave the country. It is unclear where Venezuelans waiting in Mexico will stay, as Mexico's migrant shelter system is often overwhelmed.

I didn't want to leave. But I love being at the camp because it helps take my mind off things.'  My dream is that one morning I wake up and my mum tells me the war is finished and I can go home. 'It felt very strange here when I first came, and I found it hard.

Gallagher "was super cool and affirming," Kulovitz said. "She put all my anxieties to rest." As a junior in high school, he discovered Dr Gallagher on social media. Two months later, for Valentine´s Day, his mother gave him a virtual consultation with the doctor, scheduled during his school lunch break.

"It´s an intense procedure, and at this point in time I don´t think it´s right for me," he said. For now, he has no interest in dating or pursuing a romantic relationship - and no interest in bottom surgery. He is pleased to be living in a community that includes more LGBTQ people, and has made fast friends with a cisgender young woman with whom he goes shopping for vintage clothes.

Parents of 40 gender-diverse children told Reuters they were concerned that their children came out only after they hit puberty, often at the same time as their friends and after their use of social media had increased.