Category: NHS
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NHS: Gender Doctors Harmed Children
An NHS investigation into the activities of WellBN – a Brighton GP surgery which prescribed cross-sex hormones to children – has found it caused “actual potential harm” to its young patients and “fell substantially below” the professional standards of care required. A Patient Safety Investigation Report, completed on 8 May, but published on the NHS…
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WGS issues raised in Welsh Parliament
Concerns published on this website about the Welsh Gender Service have been raised in the Welsh Parliament by Natasha Asghar MS. During a plenary session in which the Health and Social Care Minister outlined his priorities for the parliamentary session, Asghar said: “Recently, there have been some rather concerning revelations about the Welsh Gender Service,…
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Welsh Gender Service: Going Rogue?
The Welsh Gender Service is an interesting outfit. It is the only NHS clinic in Wales taking adult referrals from GPs. It is run by Dr Sophie Quinney, who was last seen in April, grabbing a camera out of a videographer’s hand, and allegedly having to be restrained by the police. According to information released…
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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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Tavistock whistleblowers call for immediate halt to puberty blocker trial
Susan and Marcus Evans – two of the first whistleblowers involved in exposing the scandal at the Tavistock’s GenderIdentity Development Service (GIDS) – have written to the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, asking him to “immediately halt” the proposed UK puberty blocker trial. The whistleblowers believe “the proposed research risks causing iatrogenic harm to children who…
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An open letter to the UK Government and its Parliamentarians
Not from me, obvs. This is from Dr Joseph Chrysostom MBBS, MS (Gen Surg), FRCSEd (pictured right), who very kindly contributed two anonymous posts to this blog comparing real vaginas with the current best facsimiles available to men and another post which compared real penises with the current best facsimiles available to women. Both posts…
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The NHS data scandal
Victoria Keilthy is a senior manager in an NHS trust and the author of “Incoherent and Unsafe“, a report on the dangers posed by the NHS’s current approach to recording sex and gender identity in patient records. I met Victoria recently and heard her talk in succinct terms about the problems the NHS has created…
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A message to you, GPs
I am in touch with a doctor who is concerned about gender-affirming care, and the expectation that GPs in the UK will prescribe hormones for young adults who have been seen by Gender Identity Clinics. She has written what follows mainly for other clinicians, but it is of interest to the lay reader, too. Introduction…