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Michelle Styles's avatar

Excellent post but I will give one clarification - it is NHS England which is doing this. NHS Scotland remains in the thrall of Gender Ideology. Health is a devolved matter and each country in the Union -- England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland develop their own policy. England has the largest population. Cass reported to NHS England.

The Telegraph revealed five days ago a leaked recording from the Sandyford, Scotland's gender clinic. It is fairly horrifying.

'A consultant clinical psychologist at Sandyford openly admitted at an online NHS event in June that there were huge gaps in evidence around trans healthcare and claimed that work was ongoing to find “a robust evidence base for the treatment that we offer”....She said that the vast majority of her patients rejected steps which could have allowed them to have children in future before undergoing treatments that could render them infertile, as they were “desperate” to quickly access hormones.

The consultant insisted that it was not the role of gender identity clinics to conduct detailed scrutiny of a patient’s mental health and that life-altering treatments were ethical, as even if a patient later changed their mind, information they provided had been “correct at the time of writing”. "

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/26/sturgeons-tavistock-clinic-offers-trans-children-surgery-not/

Allow those words to sink in. No detailed scrutiny of mental health and if a patient changed their mind, it was not the clinic's fault.

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Tab Shamsi's avatar

Thank you for writing this. Our professional institutions (most notably, the American Psychological Association) must re-align themselves with the pursuit of truth instead of activism. I fear that until that happens, the incentives will never point us in the right direction.

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