Pharmacy halts dispensing hormone scripts from transgender clinic

[stumbledin]

An online pharmacy has decided to “temporarily suspend” fulfilling hormone prescriptions it receives from digital transgender clinic GenderGP in the wake of a media backlash.

The Times and the BBC revealed last week (October 6) that parents of transgender children can obtain puberty blockers and sex hormones on prescription by GenderGP, which is owned by Hong-Kong-based company Harland International. Parents could place orders for these medicines from online pharmacy Clear Chemist, which is based in Aintree, Merseyside and is owned by RB Healthcare Ltd.

NB - this is only a temporary halt.

www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/news/pharmacy-halts-dispensing-hormone-scripts-hk-transgender-clinic

It’s a start and the publicity is really important. Daylight.

If only they cared about their patients as much as they cared about the media back lash.

If they are as good as We were meant to believe they are, then they have nothing to fear right?

We have never said ban all medication in all circumstances full stop. Just that the care received is evidence based, well researched and documented and ethically dispensed. Contrary to popular belief we do want trans people to receive the best care possible and to be able to be fully informed.

Their anger is definitely aimed at the wring people

The more I learn and think about the kind of "medical support" offered to transgender people, the more it strikes me as being a case of emotionally vulnerable individuals being recklessly exploited for financial gain.

Everyone deserves truly evidence-based treatments for their medical conditions. Any other approach is fundamentally exploitative.

I don’t want anyone to be offered permanent and unevidenced medical interventions over talking therapies, as part of unresearched, politics-based ‘care‘, using idiosyncratic standards of consent which are not applied elsewhere in medicine.

@ChattyLion

I don’t want anyone to be offered permanent and unevidenced medical interventions over talking therapies, as part of unresearched, politics-based ‘care‘, using idiosyncratic standards of consent which are not applied elsewhere in medicine.

Absolutely - and definitely not being encouraged to self medicate if their GP has reservations about prescribing such untested drugs with such little evidence of benefit.