Starting a new thread because this is potentially huge. A Mail report into NHS and medical use of WPATH standards in the UK and their reaction to the WPATH leak resulted in the following statements:
A Scottish Government spokesperson said: 'The Scottish Government and NHS Scotland do not have a working relationship with The World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH). Specific questions related to its standards, or their development, should be directed to WPATH.
'It is not correct to say that NHS Gender Identity Services in Scotland follow WPATH V8 guidelines, a wide evidence base helps inform the delivery of NHS gender identity services in Scotland.'
A GMC spokesman said: 'As the regulator for individual doctors in the UK, we do not set clinical guidance. The guidance we provide is high-level and our Trans healthcare ethical hub shows ways in which our professional standards can be applied and signposts to resources.'
A spokesperson for the Royal College of Psychiatrists said: 'All our position statements are informed by a wide variety of sources, as well as our own member's professional expertise, and are not dictated by any single individual or organisation. Our position paper on transgender health was written in 2013 and we will update it following the outcome of the Cass Review.'
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: 'NHS England is transforming children's gender identity services, in line with the Cass Review recommendations, and moved away from WPATH guidelines more than 5 years ago.
'The Tavistock clinic will close at the end of March and the new services will open in April, with robust safeguarding processes in place and staffed by experts in paediatric safeguarding.'
An NHS England spokesperson said: 'The NHS has well-established methods and processes in place to enable the development of policies and specifications for NHS gender services in line with clinical evidence and expertise.
'While we are aware of WPATH standards, we are clear that these do not determine NHS policy.'
The BMA was approached for comment.
Full article:
How influential trans health doctors and activists have secretly shaped NHS policies for more than a decade
NHS used controversial WPATH Standards of Care documents in trans policies
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13168281/INFLUENTIAL-transgender-health-doctors-activists-shape-NHS-policies.html
Sex Matters following up on this on twitter.
WPATH’s influence is all over the NHS
- 2013 govt guide to gender dysphoria services informed by WPATH SOC
- Bernadette Wren, Director at the Tavi told parliament treatment protocols are based on WPATH "almost universally observed in Europe.”
- NHS’s Contract for GIDS repeatedly refers to WPATH SOC up to 2024
- Sandyford clinic in Scotland tells adult patients: “Your treatment will be monitored & run in accordance w WPATH SOC ”
- @gmcuk @TheBMA @rcpsych informed by WPATH standards
-Gendered Intelligence, Mermaids, Stonewall and GIRES promote WPATH as the only acceptable approach.
Read our dossier on the influence of #WPATH in the UK
https://sex-matters.org/posts/publications/wpath-in-the-uk/…
And then read the #WPATHfiles
https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/wpath-files
The card tower is tottering we all need to help give it a push.
Write to your MP ask for their reaction.
Write to your local NHS Trust.
If your local council and school is pushing gender ideology demand they react to WPATH leaks.
The position in Scotland makes even less SENSE than ever. In reality WPATH is being enforced in Sandyford, but the government is actually against it now. ????
No-one even knows what is going in Wales and Northern Ireland, we need to go after them because the media doesn't care.
There is going to be a general election - a lot of parties need to actually make it clear whether they are for or against WPATH medical experiments on kids. That is on us to ask the questions in our constituency.
We need to get this out there. The card tower will come down, but the more we push the more lives we can stop from being ruined, and the quicker we can get to a reality where lots of sensible people will be saying Mumsnet and JKR were right ALL along. If we don't do it now guess what Putin, Trump and assorted other sexist pigs will be claiming the credit for knocking the tower down in a few years time and will be using the kudos to send us all back to the stone age.