High Court rejects Good Law Project's challenge on NHS waiting times for trans healthcare

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A not entirely surprising judgement - though GLP are challenging:

goodlawproject.org/update/good-law-project-will-appeal-high-court-decision-on-trans-waiting-times/

Such a good point - and yet another one of the incoherent demands that typify so much of this ideology.

I think it is a mix. Obviously GLP knows how to manipulate people and relies on people being unquestioning zealots. They certainly make out they have a chance of success in their crowdfunding appeals even though their cases are often weak. That money might have done real damage elsewhere.

GLP's legal incompetence helped Brexit be achieved, and undermined the TRA cause it seems pretty clear. He is the last person you want on your side. Plus Jolylon is a one man peaking machine.

They keep arguing that trans is not a MH condition...

And they have backing. The World Health Organisation voted four years ago for new diagnostic guidelines that no longer describe gender nonconformity as a “mental disorder".

So, as you say, why would being trans require any medical treatment at all?

Helen Webberley went off script on Twitter last night:

Top surgery is a completely routine and normal procedure that helps reduce gender dysphoria in trans men - a debilitating mental health issue that sadly takes so many lives every year.

https://twitter.com/helenwebberley/status/1686087509858467840?s=61&t=Q6bG6UpgNNK6wBpPUj7sDg

Top surgery is a completely routine and normal procedure that helps reduce gender dysphoria in trans men - a debilitating mental health issue that sadly takes so many lives every year. helen webberley

And there we have it, double mastectomies for young females with debilitating mental health problems.

My cousin got her double mastectomy a year or so ago. Think she put it on a credit card. An adult but barely out of a turbulent adolescence.

I suppose I can't help thinking what a fundamentally weird thing to do. So very strange that there are any surgeons at all who will do this.

“Top surgery is a completely routine and normal procedure…(for) ..a debilitating mental health issue…”

a) “top surgery” = double mastectomy
b) no, it’s NOT routine or normal to have a double mastectomy for anything other than breast cancer, in which case it’s undertaken to save a woman’s life. No woman undergoes this procedure lightly or without emotional distress.
c) for which other debilitating mental health issues is it “routine and normal” to remove HEALTHY body parts from often very young women? Is the stomach removed from anorexic teenagers, for example?

As will the NHS lawyers when they see all the cases being won by damaged young women round the world. The waiting list will save a lot of money, I suspect.

I too struggle with the fact that somewhere out there are trained surgeons who knowingly remove healthy body parts from (young) women who maybe haven’t yet discovered their breasts as a source of sexual pleasure and most certainly haven’t yet breastfed any babies. It’s truly tragic.

I suppose if these double mastectomies are carried out at the patients’ own expense as per @PermanentTemporary’s post above, the surgeons must be making money from carrying out this irreversible surgery.