Trans Health Conference on now

"I continue to be astonished that pre-pubescent kids are put on psychiatric drugs to manage distress rather than just be allowed to dress and behave how they want to."

i will be flabbergasted if there are children in the UK who are on drugs used to treat psychiatric disorders simply for being GNC.

The ones who might be are the ones who have parents deeply wed to gender roles / homophobic who cause distress in their GNC children, I suppose.

But no-one is drugging children because and only because they like the things / adopt the mannerisms etc of those stereotyped for the opposite sex.

they just come out with this quite obvious drivel and everyone just nods and agrees it's so weird.

Oh no, RO!

That means, erm well, doesn't that mean that there will have to be another marker on medical records as well as gender identity to indicate 'potential prostate-haver', or 'potential cervix-haver'.

Someone's going to have to think of some words to describe those biological facts...

There is no whole population prostate screening programme atm as the risks do not outweigh the benefits of doing this. If you feel you need a blood test, then you ask.

So who lobbied the NHS to conflate the sex marker with gender identity?

Who has protested and complained when NHS sex markers have not been changed on request from m to f or f to m?

Hasn't Dr Ben Vincent been involved in influencing NHS sex/gender identity policy?

@UKTELI
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Now with
@AimeeEvelyn202
from
@LGBTfdn
talking about their fabulous Pride in Practice programme in primary care #TransHealthConf2019

It has to be 'fabulous'

@Transgendertrd 46m

Important point from Polly Carmichael this morning that we must not confound pragmatic issues (such as waiting times for example) with differences in protocols around care.
#TransHealthConf2019

@NotRightRuth

Taking a pause on the livetweeting from #TransHealthConf2019 for now - but if you're here, you may get a chance to see me present on initial findings from the
@transpregnancy
project!

Have these people any sense whatsoever?

That would be a ‘No’.

Are transpeople some kind of invalid? Once their healthy bodies have been damaged by puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, and they are then dependent on a lifetime of medication, plus more medication to deal with the side-effects of these medications, plus surgery (in the case of females on testosterone) to deal with the consequences of these clinically un-necessary medications, not to mention the consequences of major cosmetic surgery, yes, they probably will be.

Twitter hashtag:
#TransHealthConf2019

Are transpeople some kind of invalid?

I'm sure in one of the Stonewall surveys a really surprisingly high percentage of the trans respondents identified as having a disability.

I've just been looking at some of the tweets on the hashtag, and saw this tweeted by DadTrans:

"When just on blockers, trans adolescents are having to go through medically induced menapause age 13, 14, 15. This is what GIDS is causing in their current protocol. This is not cautious."

twitter.com/DadTrans/status/1111593664919285760

It took me a while to realise that what he means by this is not that blockers shouldn't be used, but that children should be on cross-sex hormones.

You are doing well. I looked through the hashtag...…………….what a bunch

Young people need autonomy

You're fucking joking right Susie? My teens are pretty batshit. As was I at that age.

Have these people any sense whatsoever?

Olsen-Kennedy: I continue to be astonished that pre-pubescent kids are put on psychiatric drugs to manage distress rather than just be allowed to dress and behave how they want to.

Sadly that is probably waht TRAs would call 'literal violence' or 'denying their existence'.

I mean fancy that, a clinician saying just be who you are, we can sort out the physicalities once you have explored the possibilities.

The 'horror of long waits' could be assuaged by lots of talking therapy...

I was at the doctors last week and saw a notice for a group for transpeople and those who care for them. Are transpeople some kind of invalid?