Telegraph: ‘Sturgeon’s Tavistock’ clinic offers trans treatments not backed by ‘robust evidence’

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A very long article about the Sandyford clinic in today's Telegraph:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/26/sturgeons-tavistock-clinic-offers-trans-children-surgery-not/

"A gender identity clinic’ branded “Sturgeon’s Tavistock” has been offering patients irreversible sex-change treatments despite senior clinicians admitting that its methods are not backed by “robust evidence”, a leaked recording showed.
The Sandyford Clinic in Glasgow, home to Scotland’s only gender identity clinicc_ for children, also authorised hormone treatment and referrals for surgical procedures for its patients after apparently rudimentary mental health assessments, according to unguarded comments by a senior clinician."

Removal of the penis is penectomy.

I agree that emasculation is a very problematic.

Penectomy and bilateral or orchiectomy does not make someone less male. It just removes some body parts that only male humans have.

Thanks, Sudocrem. I think.

If you’d asked me a year ago if I’d be googling to find that out… yeah. Ridiculous. And yet here we are. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Front page of the Scottish Daily Mail today:

twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/1586854199869861888

An investigation into the Sandyford clinic:

www.pressreader.com/uk/scottish-daily-mail/20221031/281496460226765

And this

www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/23088774.snp-assault-womens-rights-shames-scotland/

'Reasonably-minded Scots believe there is room for transgender rights to be protected alongside women’s rights to safe spaces and their protected, sex-based characteristics.

The Scottish Government though is effectively saying that we can’t have both and that women’s rights must be sacrificed. It is effectively seeking to create a two-tier system of human rights where to be a woman living in Scotland is to be denied many of the rights men enjoy.'

From the Herald article above

And in the comments:

'The journalist cites an example of a rape victim not being guaranteed a safe space at a rape crisis centre? How can this be? I thought I would check this matter out a bit further to see what I came up with and it transpired the rape crisis centre in Edinburgh is run by a man who identifies as a woman. He dresses as an Asian women but has a penis. Our Scots government employ him. Tell me Im imagining this stuff because I wish I was and it was not true.'

JKR has tweeted this as well so it should get to a lot of people:

twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1587014510564573186?s=46&t=w0hIZEvLjm0PdzgOlfB4ew

Arabella. The rape crisis centre CEO does not have a GRC. They are on record as liking to sit in on counselling sessions. This person recommends that traumatised women who want to use the centre's services must not object to males being present, even if the presence of a male is triggering. And in fact, a triggered, trauma response is bigoted and the woman must reframe their trauma, sorry, "unacceptable beliefs" or be declined assistance.
Aren't they a nice person?
[Heart eyes] /sarcasm

When are doctors going to realise that it’s completely normal, even expected, for girls to be upset about growing breasts and starting periods? Doesn’t mean chop them off and sterilise us!

Think the term for someone who forces rape victims to describe their rape to a man is trauma voyeur / sadist.

And one could probably get banned from MN coming up with a very long list of other words that most on here would regard as fair.

Shudder, yes you're right.

The Scottish Daily Mail in print:

twitter.com/forwomenscot/status/1587176385805697029?s=46&t=Q9TuTj0iEf5fInuhJqLIJQ

And it's been picked up by the Telegraph:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/31/children-young-nine-prescribed-puberty-blockers-nicola-sturgeon/

Nine years old? It’s state-sanctioned child abuse.

The comments under the Telegraph article !

Although 'What's worn under the kilt? Nothing, it's all been surgically removed.' Did give me a grim chuckle.

It was DH who told me about the Telegraph coverage. Even paused the TV "have you see this?!" he was incredulous.

Yes, I know! Just good to see other people reading about this and instantly seeing the issues.

Study here, but it's paywalled.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33855617/

www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/articles/nhs-scotland-funding-gender-identity-healthcare

'The NHS Gender Identity Services Strategy Action Framework has been backed by a £9 million investment which will help improve access to and delivery of NHS gender identity services.'

(This is from last year, just found it while looking for the study link).

Today's Telegraph article was highlighted by Justin Webb in the newspaper review on the Today programme on Radio 4. Cue outrage on twitter by activists and those who identify as progressive:

twitter.com/Faewik/status/1587351918250262528

7.43am summarizes 98% of the tiny number of youngsters correctly given the benefit of #PubertyBlockers go on to gender confirmation as being a self fulfilling "medicalizaton pathway"

When is 98% a failure?

The answer to the question is: it's a failure when detransitioners exist in non-negligible numbers.

Justin is doing a great job at bringing the issue to the attention of a whole demographic who may not be very aware of the issue. I wonder if he lurks here? Or posts, even?

Thank you, Justin!

Finally some parts of the BBC are waking up to the scandal that is emerging around children’s mental health and affirmation. but we are also still hearing biased nonsense.

It's unravelling. Slowly, but it is.