Category: Safeguarding
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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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Men in Scottish Women’s Prisons Unlawful
“We are thrilled with the result, but it should never have come to this.” The Scottish government’s policy of putting men in women’s prisons has today been ruled unlawful. A judicial review found in favour of the campaign group For Women Scotland, who argued the current Scottish Prison Service policy of taking into account a…
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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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Gender Clinic Investigation Stays Secret
A parent taking the WellBN gender clinic in Brighton to court over the treatment of his child has lost his bid to see the results of a recently completed investigation into potential malpractice at the clinic. The report was commissioned in June last year. As part of its scope, investigators were asked to: Their report…
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FTC boss to detransitioners: Your Voice is Heard
It’s quite a coup to get one serving member of any government to a Genspect event let alone two. I have written up the views of Admiral Christine, Donald Trump’s Assistant Health Secretary, who gave the keynote speech at this year’s Life Beyond Transition conference in Washington DC. The second member of the Trump administration…
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US Health Admiral: gender surgery must be ‘eradicated like the plague it is’
Donald Trump’s Assistant Secretary for Health today vowed he would “not stop” until the “barbaric practice” of gender surgery for children in the United States is “eradicated like the plague it is.” Admiral Brian Christine was speaking on Thursday at Life Beyond Transition 2026 – a one-day conference bringing together the largest ever gathering of…
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Let’s All Go To The Lobby
I could not attend the Women’s Rights Network’s “Do No Harm” lobby day in Parliament on Tuesday, but my friend Susi could, and did. I am grateful to her for writing up the experience for the GenderBlog: “10 March 2026, and an unfamiliar ball of fire was hanging in the sky above Westminster Palace. A…
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Puberty blocker JR stayed till July
The government’s attempt to stay James Esses, Keira Bell and the Bayswater Group’s judicial review (JR) of the Pathways Puberty Blocker trial has succeeded. There will now be an eight week pause in proceedings to give the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and King’s College London (KCL) a chance to discuss the issues…