Hello, regular lurker and occasional poster, I’ve name changed.
There have been a few recent articles in the BJGP in the last 2 months around healthcare for trans people that I felt were misleading and I would like to write a response.
I believe good healthcare for people who are trans is important, we need to reduce stigma and discrimination and ensuring trans people get accurate (sex based) screening. These articles however conflated sex and gender and brought DSDs where they weren’t relevant, totally obscuring what was actually being talked about. I think a lot of medical people are worried about trans ideology and medicalisation of distress especially in children and young people but feel they won’t or can’t speak out. Most people in my professional network just don’t want to talk about it as they perceive it as too toxic.
Anyway I thought I’d ask on here if anyone wants to co-author a sensitive and professional response from a feminist viewpoint. (You would need to be a health professional or academic with an interest in health but not necessarily doctor or GP) PM me if interested. I can write something myself of course but with more authors more likely to get taken seriously and published.