Category: Surgery
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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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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 The author of a withdrawn report which still might get Amnesty International sued is speaking at the Liberal Democrat party’s autumn conference.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…
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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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Gender Surgery’s Incontinence Problem
“This data is shocking, but they’re carrying on. Chelsea and Westminster are training up new surgeons.” One of the bigger scandals surrounding gender treatment concerns the long term effects of both hormone use and surgery. A particular aspect of it was brought home this week at a Rethinking Youth Gender Medicine conference* by Elaine Miller…
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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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Detransitioning the Culture
“This is not a time to be timid… The entire field of gender medicine is built upon a lie.” I have been a fan of Mia Hughes since I saw her speak in Lisbon a couple of years ago. She had that year published the WPATH files, internal emails and documents which revealed the true…
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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…