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Panorama 25 Feb 20.30hrs: Trans Kids: Why Medicine Matters **Thread title edited by MNHQ**

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TimeLady · 25/02/2019 12:36

"More young people than ever are exploring their gender identity. Last year, two and a half thousand under-eighteens were referred to NHS England's gender identity clinics for support. Some are hoping to get access to potentially irreversible treatments as soon as they can. Doctors are divided about the best way to help."

"Dr Faye Kirkland investigates how much we understand about the care being offered to transgender children."

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2019StandingforWomen · 25/02/2019 13:27

Shon Faye has also gone very quiet - anyone know why?

thatdamnwoman · 25/02/2019 13:24

Random thoughts ticking through my head about Dr Haddock disappearing from Twitter and out of sight in New Zealand. Could he have known this was coming up? And Ruth Hunt. And Stonewall trustees up against the wall and fighting anyone and everyone in desperation. Next it'll be Owen 'wrong side of history' Jones taking a couple of months out of the limelight.

R0wantrees · 25/02/2019 13:09

August 2018 investigation still available on iplayer:

"Online Doctors Uncovered
Panorama

Panorama goes undercover to reveal online doctor sites putting profit before patient care. In 2017 the Care Quality Commission issued a warning about the risks of buying drugs prescribed by doctors online. The programme discovers opiate-based painkillers and slimming tablets being sold to potentially vulnerable people and antibiotics being delivered across Europe in the face of warnings about resistance.

Dr Faye Kirkland, journalist and GP, meets the families of patients who have died after online consultations and exposes the sites running rings around the regulators."
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3qb74

SpartacusAutisticusAHF · 25/02/2019 12:42

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TimeLady · 25/02/2019 12:37

"potentially irreversible" is an interesting choice of wording by the BBC.

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