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 Eng…
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”. "
You are welcome. It is easy to get confused if you don't live here. Campaigners in Scotland are hoping to get the Scottish government and others to pay attention to the Cass Report, but with mixed success.
The Telegraph has continued its expose of the Sandyford today including: "Children as young as nine were prescribed puberty blockers at a Scottish gender identity clinic branded "Sturgeon's Tavistock," a report has revealed.
A report into Scotland's national gender identity service by NHS clinicians found 79 children aged between nine and 18 were referred for puberty-suppressing drugs while being treated at the Sandyford Clinic in Glasgow.
The report also showed a “disproportionately” high number of children undergoing gender treatment who were referred to endocrinologists at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow from 2011 to 2019 had autism.
Nearly 40 per cent of children referred suffered from mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression.
In the past 12 months, Sandyford clinic has seen more than 600 under-18s. "
Dr Andreas Kyriakou, a former paediatric endocrinologist at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow and lead author of the appraisal wrote: "Mental health problems remain one of the major coexisting concerns in transgender young people, as more than one-third of those attending our clinic have a diagnosis of a mental health disorder.
"Our study confirms the disproportionate number of young people with autistic spectrum traits, much higher than expected in the general population." "
I don't know if you can get hold of the report from the European Journal of Paediatrics which was published in April 2021 but it might be worth taking a look.
They are far smaller. NI has problems and I think Wales mostly feeds into the Tavistock which is closing. The big campaign was in England and Transgender Trend is v happy.
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.
Thanks for the clarification! Will update.
You are welcome. It is easy to get confused if you don't live here. Campaigners in Scotland are hoping to get the Scottish government and others to pay attention to the Cass Report, but with mixed success.
The Telegraph has continued its expose of the Sandyford today including: "Children as young as nine were prescribed puberty blockers at a Scottish gender identity clinic branded "Sturgeon's Tavistock," a report has revealed.
A report into Scotland's national gender identity service by NHS clinicians found 79 children aged between nine and 18 were referred for puberty-suppressing drugs while being treated at the Sandyford Clinic in Glasgow.
The report also showed a “disproportionately” high number of children undergoing gender treatment who were referred to endocrinologists at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow from 2011 to 2019 had autism.
Nearly 40 per cent of children referred suffered from mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression.
In the past 12 months, Sandyford clinic has seen more than 600 under-18s. "
Dr Andreas Kyriakou, a former paediatric endocrinologist at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow and lead author of the appraisal wrote: "Mental health problems remain one of the major coexisting concerns in transgender young people, as more than one-third of those attending our clinic have a diagnosis of a mental health disorder.
"Our study confirms the disproportionate number of young people with autistic spectrum traits, much higher than expected in the general population." "
I don't know if you can get hold of the report from the European Journal of Paediatrics which was published in April 2021 but it might be worth taking a look.
This is the article from the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/31/children-young-nine-prescribed-puberty-blockers-nicola-sturgeon/
Do we know what Wales and N Ireland are doing?
They are far smaller. NI has problems and I think Wales mostly feeds into the Tavistock which is closing. The big campaign was in England and Transgender Trend is v happy.