Hi, GP of 30 years experience here.
I work in a semi rural practice in New Zealand.
Privately and in small groups many of my colleagues express gender critical views. There is often great fear about expressing those views publically amongst colleagues. There is a push for GPs to provide gender affirming hormones… often without psychological assessment because it is perceived as being discriminatory to ask psychological assessment ( the real reason I expect is that there are no psychologists!)
I want those patients with severe gender dysphoria all the help and support needed but the wave of young people wanting treatment, who often have other mental health/ neurological atypical diagnosis is frightening. I am afraid as a profession we are doing more harm than good by providing a medical solution to a social phenomenon .
NZ is very small.
I am wondering if there are international groups, people with an excellent research background looking at this .
Can PM me.
Thankyou.