This is something that I’ve been wondering about for a while. We hear about both children and adults getting puberty blockers, hormone treatment, and indeed gender-changing surgery on the NHS. But on what grounds does the NHS fund this? I can’t work it out.
We’re repeatedly told that being transgender isn’t a mental illness. And yet the only [supposedly] negative consequences of not ‘transitioning’ seem to be depression and anxiety - which are symptoms of mental illness. There is zero physical health risk to not transitioning, absolutely zero, because it’s not a physical illness. But transitioning actually causes physical issues.
So if gender dysphoria is not a mental illness, nor a physical one, isn’t treatment effectively cosmetic?
On what grounds is the NHS justifying any treatment other than psychological treatment to help with the concurrent depression and anxiety?