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BBC Gender Apology Row
Read More…: BBC Gender Apology RowNow they’re in trouble. I am not a defund the BBC sort, but I can understand the frustrations of those who are. I have spoken at length (here, here and here) about the BBC consciously lying to (and therefore losing the trust of) its audience, and I will never forgive its treatment of the heroic Cath Leng. However, there are some good people inside it, trying to make a difference. But… On 6 August 2026, BBC Three Counties local radio station, whiichcovers Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, ran a half hour current affairs chat on the Jonathan Vernon-Smith Show. The midday…
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WGS surgery referral free-for-all
Read More…: WGS surgery referral free-for-allOn Tuesday this week, 29 year old Sion Jewell told the BBC about the cancellation of her double mastectomy. “It was just the most heartbreaking feeling in the world” said Jewell, “to know I can’t be in the body I’ve always been in my head… the dysphoria is a pain like nothing… nothing imaginable can describe that pain.” Jewell’s surgery was cancelled 24 hours before she was due to go under the knife. We are now finally starting to get a bit more information as to why NHS Wales’ senior body, the Joint Commissioning Committee (JCC) decided to cancel all…
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Bash Back Threaten NHS Staff
Read More…: Bash Back Threaten NHS StaffOn Friday, NHS Wales confirmed they had cancelled all scheduled surgeries and paused all surgery referrals made by the Welsh Gender Service, pending an investigation. I speculated this might be about to happen in a blog post I published earlier the same day. Within a few hours that speculation had been confirmed to me and Hugo Daniel at the Sunday Times, allowing us to publish the story on Saturday morning. Yesterday afternoon, the trans activist group Bash Back produced a seven page statement on X and BlueSky. Bash Back said the decision to cancel surgeries “will kill” and that the…
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Welsh Gender Surgeries Could Be Stopped
Read More…: Welsh Gender Surgeries Could Be StoppedOn Monday, NHS Wales joint commissioning body’s Quality, Safety and Outcomes committee met to discuss the Welsh Gender Service. Last week this website revealed that WGS had been designated a “potential Service of Concern” due to “issues identified through ongoing review and assurance processes”. These included “higher rates of surgical referral than seen in comparable services in England and concerns regarding referral appropriateness”. The higher rates of surgical referral were first highlighted by this website in May. On Tuesday I received a message from NHS Wales telling me “The issues identified through our review and assurance processes have now been…
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Amnesty’s “anti-rights” author is back!
Read More…: Amnesty’s “anti-rights” author is back!… and she’s speaking at the Lib Dem conference. The author of a withdrawn report which still might get Amnesty International sued is speaking at the Liberal Democrat party’s autumn conference. Chiara Capraro, Amnesty’s Gender Justice Warrior Director is part of a fringe panel event called Anti-rights: the threat from Christian Nationalism and the far right. Capraro is an expert on anti-rights, having authored the July 2026 report A Growing Threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK, in which she says some people are “anti-rights”, whilst acknowledging “rights belong to everyone equally”. A Growing Threat notes a recent rise in…
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Welsh gender clinic “potential Service of Concern”
Read More…: Welsh gender clinic “potential Service of Concern”… but the surgery referrals won’t stop. The Welsh Gender Service (WGS) has been described as a “potential Service of Concern” in an internal NHS document published online. A Service of Concern is a formal NHS designation, meaning there has been “significant singular service failures, or cumulative or systemic concerns regarding a service or setting”. The WGS, based in Cardiff, is the only clinic in Wales allowed to refer NHS patients for genital surgeries and mastectomies. In May, GenderBlog revealed that the WGS was referring adult patients for genital surgeries and mastectomies at three to four times the rate per…
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Call for NHS therapists to “educate” clients
Read More…: Call for NHS therapists to “educate” clientsThe British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) has proposed requiring its therapists to “actively promote inclusion” during therapy sessions and “ensure that any discriminatory attitudes and behaviours are challenged” when expressed by patients. The BABCP regulates psychotherapists and BABCP accreditation is considered important for any Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT) working in the NHS. It has more than 23,000 members. The new requirements are part of a proposed overhaul to the BABCP’s Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics, which, if approved, will come into force later this year. The standards tell therapists that “discrimination can be challenged by speaking…
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Legal Challenge to Puberty Blocker Trial fails
Read More…: Legal Challenge to Puberty Blocker Trial failsThe attempt to stop the Pathways puberty blocker trial at the High Court has failed. After a two day permissions hearing earlier this week, Mr Justice Chamberlain refused to allow the application to go to full review on the basis that “none of the grounds of challenge has a realistic prospect of success”. The Bayswater Group (parents of transitioners), James Esses (psychotherapist) and Keira Bell (detransitioner) sought to have the Pathways trial blocked on the basis that: After reviewing 13,000 pages of evidence from both sides, Chamberlain decided to accept the arguments from the Department of Health and the HRA…
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Decision on Puberty Blocker Judicial Review tomorrow
Read More…: Decision on Puberty Blocker Judicial Review tomorrowA decision on whether a judicial review into the government’s Pathways puberty blocker trial can go ahead will be handed down at the High Court in London tomorrow at 2pm. The judicial review applicants are seeking permission to have the trial stopped, claiming the decisions which led to its approval were made unlawfully and the trial itself is unlawful. The judgment follows a two day hearing at the High Court earlier this week. The puberty blocker trial, if it goes ahead, will study the effects of puberty-suppressing hormones on 226 pre-pubescent children. Half will be given a six monthly dose…
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NHS Fife ordered to publish trans guidance
Read More…: NHS Fife ordered to publish trans guidanceFighting Fife With FOI The Information Commissioner in Scotland, David Hamilton, has told NHS Fife to make its 2024 Trans Policy available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act. NHS Fife has thus far refused to release the document, citing a number of exemptions, all of which have been rejected by the Commissioner. NHS Fife has until 13 August to comply with Hamilton’s instruction. The decision comes six months after the Scottish ICO issued a level 4 Intervention (the most serious) over NHS Fife’s handling of FOI requests relating to the amount of public money spent defending the…
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