RC for GPs scraps GIRES developed course

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CallingDannyBoy · 03/02/2019 08:36

Does anyone have a share token for this?
www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/training-guide-pushed-gps-to-endorse-gender-swaps-0v28x07v8

The Royal College for GPS has scrapped an online course developed by GIRES and available on the RC website. It cites GPs with no or limited experience of transgender patients wishing to transition being reluctant to prescribe drugs because they do not have sufficient training and experience. The RC removed a reference to Mermaids as a defence or resource point in the training and GIRES objected to this.

This is a good step forward - growing unease with Mermaids and GPs ding uneasy with being asked to prescribe treatment they are not comfortable with. GIRES are painting it as denying treatment to transgender patients.

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VovoBickie · 03/02/2019 09:04

"Gires maintains it is “becoming ever more apparent that 5% of the population [or 3.3m people] are gender-diverse”

What!? Are they saying 5% of ppl are trans?

ErrolTheDragon · 03/02/2019 08:59

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/training-guide-pushed-gps-to-endorse-gender-swaps-0v28x07v8?shareToken=a111b2bcc08bf4f2f942e3e5aa9db368

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CallingDannyBoy · 03/02/2019 08:53

What happened to autocorrect should be reference not defence

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Anlaf · 03/02/2019 08:41

Can't do sharetoken but came to see if this had been posted.

Gires paid the college £7,837 to host the course on its website.

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But the two fell out after the college made changes to the course without informing Gires. The college objected to the charity Mermaids, which supports transgender children and their families, being recommended for referrals, saying: “Delete Mermaids from the list of people to use for support and just use Gires. Mermaids have become very controversial.”

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