From the article:
'One health professional revealed that some young “non-binary” patients who say they do not belong to either gender still request sex hormones that would either feminise or masculinise them.
'The employee said: “We’re following a 2012 protocol that doesn’t talk at all about non-binary people, which is actually becoming a much bigger proportion of our cases.
'“And [there are] non-binary people asking for hormones, but of course hormones are only either feminising or masculinising. So how does that fit for a person who identifies as non-binary?”'
I wonder if clinics like the Sandyford are allowed to refuse referrals. If they don't have a protocol for dealing with people who claim to be non-binary, could they just say: we are not going to treat you? Surely they are not obliged to refer patients to endocrinology to receive hormones?