Great reporting from a local paper Brighton Hove News:
A Hove GP is using a loophole in NHS rules to give children cross-sex hormones after just a ten-minute appointment, a book claims.
Journalist Hannah Barnes has won multiple awards for her book Time to Think, which revealed the NHS was prescribing puberty blockers to children sometimes after minimal assessment and without effectively monitoring their long-term effects.
The book, billed as the “inside story of the collapse of the Tavistock’s gender service for children [GIDS]” is coming out in paperback tomorrow.
In a newly published epilogue, a Brighton parent has outlined her concerns over her severely autistic daughter – given the pseudonym Charlotte – being prescribed testosterone by WellBN after a single appointment with GP Dr Sam Hall.
And it says the mother has spoken to at least ten other families whose children have been prescribed hormones at 16 by Dr Hall – some of whom are grateful, but others of whom are more cautious.
The book says: “How could Charlotte and other 16-year-olds have been prescribed cross-sex hormones, on the NHS, without any kind of specialist gender assessment, and without having previously been administrered puberty blockers for a year beforehand?
“Even people under the care of GIDS cannot receive hormones at 16 without having been on puberty blockers for a year beforehand.”
https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2024/03/27/brighton-gp-is-using-loophole-to-prescribe-hormones-to-underage-kids-book-claims/