BMJ: Trans health needs more and better services

Cigarstring, yes, please do! :)

It might be a good idea to read up on ATH Director Jess Bradley, who's just been suspended as NUS trans officer. The NUS's investigation hasn't been concluded, so it's just alleged (although JB hasn't denied it) - but these threads (there's lots of info here!) are illuminating about ATH in places. This is the first of three threads:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3320513-Jess-Bradley-first-transgender-student-officer-suspended-after-flashing-photos

There's also this Times article about ATH which confirms JB was a Director of ATH www.thetimes.co.uk/article/action-for-trans-health-activists-want-free-sex-change-hormones-for-children-dhvv5c52v

It's a self-serving and very narrow view, isn't it?

Making a case for more staff, more training and more services directed at your particular specialism, is one thing. Asking searching ethical questions about lifetime prescriptions for hormones, funded by the taxpayer, is another.

Is the rise in transgender people in GPs surgeries seen in countries where medical care is not free at the point of service?

Mental health services IN GENERAL have been absolutely massacred - this is not a Trans issue (although according to the lobbyists bloody everything is a Trans issue)

Be interesting (and heartbreaking) to see what the statistics for women with PND attempting suicide are....

It's a feature, written by this journalist:

Ingrid Torjessen

I am so angry with the BMJ for giving further legitimacy to this damaging and bonkers group.

Since when was anecdata suitable for the BMJ?!

How can we complain about this? Does anyone know?

I wonder if the BMJ is on board with Action for Trans Health's bonkers manifesto, which includes the following:

There will be no clinics, and no authorities. We will conduct our own research, and experiment with our own bodies. We will heal and grow together. We will accumulate knowledge and share it freely and accessibly. We demand nothing less than the total abolition of the clinic, of psychiatry, and of the medical-industrial complex. We demand an end to capitalist & colonialist “medicine”.

Or their demand for an end to borders, prisons and police.

edinburghath.tumblr.com/post/163521055802/trans-health-manifesto

I wonder if the BMJ appreciate that ATH is an anarchist / antifa-inspired group that advocates violence against women?

After a 20-something transactivist attacked and beat up 60 year old feminist Maria MacLachlan, ATH tweeted in support of the attacker Tara Wood (who was later found guilty in court).

"Punching terfs is the same as punching Nazis. Fascism must be smashed with the greatest violence to ensure our collective liberation from it"

You can see a screenshot of the tweet here: pbs.twimg.com/media/DJxctZaWsAMO-ba.jpg

I wonder if the BMJ knows that one of the key members of Action for Trans Health has just been suspended from their NUS post as Trans Officer for running a blog that showed pictures of them getting their dick out in public, including at their NUS desk - along with underage incest porn.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6003331/Britains-official-transgender-student-officer-suspended.html

FFS, in this paper, the BMJ is quoting Action for Trans Health, and perpetuating the suicide myth which has been totally discredited.

A lack of specialists has led to a spike in self medicating and mental health crises, says Jack Doyle, press officer and advocacy coordinator for Action for Trans Health, the largest UK based campaign for trans healthcare reform and support.

“I know four trans people who have attempted or died by suicide in the past year while waiting for NHS care.” He adds that a lot of trans people are forced to seek out private options in the UK and abroad because of the rising waiting times.

Welcome to mumsnet Cigarstring :)

We all are, op. It makes no sense

No sense at all.

Am shocked at the government and mps.

We all are, op. It makes no sense.

Just thought I'd say welcome to FWR, Cigarstring. Always good to see someone new posting, are you an ex-lurker?

Apparently it will be 1 in 50 of the population soon