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zibzibara · 09/06/2023 16:24

Sounds like the NHS are trying to wash their hands of this issue, but not actually safeguard more broadly.

Clymene · 09/06/2023 16:15

Mollyollydolly · 09/06/2023 16:03

Ahhhh just read this in the Hannah Barnes thread, one heck of a loophole.

That's really awful. So parents can sterilise their children against medical advice and that's not an issue.

Bloody hell

BreadInCaptivity · 09/06/2023 16:10

There is also the other issue that because GGP are private they also technically should be working with the NHS GP practice the young person is under the care of.

There are many NHS GP's (who know the back story of GGP) who refuse to do this.

Thelnebriati · 09/06/2023 16:08

There's a loophole. If you started giving your child blockers that were prescribed/obtained from outside the NHS, the NHS may continue them - and for some reason prescribing or obtaining puberty blockers from dodgy sources to give to a minor is no longer a safeguarding issue or reportable.

Its a disaster for child rights and safeguarding imo.

BreadInCaptivity · 09/06/2023 16:04

Thingybob · 09/06/2023 16:02

What does it mean for the Wobberleys?

A surge in demand from those who believe the only treatment for gender distress is PBs and CSHs?

Maybe. It doesn't stop the prescribing PB's.

It does make it difficult to legally defend doing so if there are adverse outcomes.

So potentially they might find themselves unable to get insurance.....

Mollyollydolly · 09/06/2023 16:03

Ahhhh just read this in the Hannah Barnes thread, one heck of a loophole.

NHS / NHSE - NEW - Interim service specification: Interim specialist service for children and young people with gender incongruence
Thingybob · 09/06/2023 16:02

What does it mean for the Wobberleys?

A surge in demand from those who believe the only treatment for gender distress is PBs and CSHs?

Mollyollydolly · 09/06/2023 16:00

I assume this very welcome news doesn't affect what the private sector can do. Will Gender GP still be able to carry on regardless? I genuinely don't know the answer.

Slothtoes · 09/06/2023 15:53

This sounds very sensible in the focus on psychological approaches. Caution on social transition is good.

What about inviting kids for follow up who have already taken PBs via Tavi over the past few years? That way they can see what the long term outcomes have been (after all Tavi know what they prescribed and when) without doing lots more research and needing to put more kids on PBs experimentally?

Have they also changed the requirement that PBs must be taken before cross sex hormones can be given? What about the kids already on that pathway currently on PBs, will that be stopped immediately?

Clymene · 09/06/2023 15:36

I've just come on to post this! This sounds v good news

Here's a threadreader summary of Hannah's thread for people who aren't on Twitter (or who like me find it easier to read text in a block rather than lots of different tweets);

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1667160027151364098.html

What does it mean for the Wobberleys?