Wes Streeting taking anti-transgender guidance to new heights
A document obtained by the Good Law Project sets out new guidance that ensures GPs will refuse care to under-18s trans+ people who need support with their private gender-affirming care.
According to the Good Law Project, this guidance has been issued to all GPs. It reconfirms previous advice issued after the Cass Review to consider safeguarding referrals for parents who continue to support trans children with gender-affirming care after GPs refuse further support.
It’s striking that while the guidance explains that this new information doesn’t apply to adults, it provides advice on how GPs can deny support to adults seeking the same kind of care using principles that have already become widely used by GPs. This has led to hundreds of trans adults across the UK losing access to gender-affirming care.
Jo Maugham, Executive Director of the Good Law Project, says, “The guidance will force GPs to actively cause risk and harm to trans people. Heroin addicts have their bloods monitored by their GPs to protect their health, but trans people, whose only ‘sin’ is to be trans, now cannot. I find it all quite sickening – for trans people, the NHS has become the national hate service.”
All this will do is drive up suicide rates of transgender people
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