Category: Blog
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WGS surgery referral free-for-all
On 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…
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Bash Back Threaten NHS Staff
On 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…
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Welsh Gender Surgeries Could Be Stopped
On 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…
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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”.…
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Call for NHS therapists to “educate” clients
The 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.…
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Depoliticising the Workplace
Tanya de Grunwald has a podcast strand called This Isn’t Working, in which she invites business leaders to consider employee activism and the vicissitudes of DEI. Her live events, under the banner This Is Working, are aimed at bringing business leaders together to discuss how organisations can move forward from where we are now. There…
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NHS Doctor Attacks Videographer
On Saturday 11 April various women’s groups around the country got together for a series of events under the One Year On banner, marking the first anniversary of the For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling. The 2025 ruling essentially established that in law, the word “woman” definitely means biological female. The One Year On event…
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All the Red Flags
I am grateful to an Aussie correspondent for drawing my attention to the work of Minus 18, a state-sponsored LGBTQIA+ concern, which exists to create an “Australia where all young people are safe, empowered, and surrounded by people that support them”. Minus 18 was founded by a man called Colin Roland Billings who, at the…
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“The Guardrails Are Collapsing”
“If I if I get struck off as a psychologist and I’ve got to go and stack shelves in Tesco, then at least I know I did the right thing. I can’t do this anymore.” Dr P is a clinical psychologist and an expert witness in child protection. She has a severely disabled daughter in…
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Corporate Stupidity Files: Infinity War
This story is an example of how companies act against their own interests by sacrificing themselves on the altar of gender ideology. Two years ago, John Lewis set up a Pride in Partnership photography exhibition at its Oxford Street store in London. It also published a staff magazine produced by the partnership’s LGBTQIA+ network. Both…