RC for GPs scraps GIRES developed course

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Does anyone have a share token for this?
www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/training-guide-pushed-gps-to-endorse-gender-swaps-0v28x07v8

The Royal College for GPS has scrapped an online course developed by GIRES and available on the RC website. It cites GPs with no or limited experience of transgender patients wishing to transition being reluctant to prescribe drugs because they do not have sufficient training and experience. The RC removed a reference to Mermaids as a defence or resource point in the training and GIRES objected to this.

This is a good step forward - growing unease with Mermaids and GPs ding uneasy with being asked to prescribe treatment they are not comfortable with. GIRES are painting it as denying treatment to transgender patients.

A lot of medical decisions are balancing potential risk vs potential benefit rather than 'do no harm' eg cancer treatments such as chemotherapy.

One of the people who set up GIRES has passed away. I'm sure she will be missed by her family. www.csp.org.uk/frontline/article/how-my-wife-changed-peoples-lives

I read that obituary, my sympathy to the family. Staggering what a driven woman was able to help to achieve. I wonder if she died happy with her work?

I thought I had a hair on my screen was trying to remove it but it was actually on the post.

Tampered my sympathy somewhat.

And the test questions for that certificate

Fuck me. I was so outraged that I clicked the Report button for that post! I have now recovered from the red mist and I can see that a) you are merely the messenger and do not deserve to be shot and b) the post is from 2019.

So I have only just now learned that in 2019 GPs were being taught actual lies about youth gender medicine, including the lie that puberty blockers reduce suicidality and the lie that puberty blockers are safe and reversible.

Shouldn't the RCGP be doing some kind of quality control on its CPD website? It's really concerning that this would have stayed on their site if GIRES hadn't kicked off about Mermaids.

Anyway. It's great that things have improved somewhat but damn. I'm still shook from seeing those questions.