NHS to open detrans clinic

[fromorbit]

Amazing news:

NHS to launch first service for trans patients wanting to return to birth gender
Cass Review found children were being hurried down pathways involving powerful drugs and medical interventions

NHS officials said the next step was to “define an NHS pathway for those individuals who choose to detransition” because currently no guidance on how to care for them exists.
The health service said: “There is no defined clinical pathway in the NHS for individuals who are considering detransition. NHS England will establish a programme of work to explore the issues around a detransition pathway by October 2024.”
It said this would include examining the rate at which patients detransition and their reasons for doing so, as these are currently unknown, and would recognise “that individuals who choose to detransition may not wish to re-engage with the services they were previously under” as per the recommendations.

Dr Cass said a lack of long-term data made it impossible to know how frequently people detransitioned, although anecdotally it was “increasing”.
The lack of long-term evidence was also why the review said puberty blockers should not be prescribed outside of a clinical trial.
That trial is now set to begin from early 2025, the NHS confirmed, with the first patients enrolled from April next year.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/07/trans-first-service-detransition-cass-review-birth-gender/

Such good news about the clinic. Detransitioners are treated appallingly in the current healthcare (if we can call it that) regime. I agree, for most the transition itself should never have happened. Here's hoping the whole system changes to prioritise good mental and physical health.

Such terrible stories. High time the growing number of detransitioners voices were heard and their needs met.
The removal of adults with a vested interest in transitioning children from being able to influence child health & psychological care can't come soon enough. Cass clearly outlined the pressures from self interested trans lobbyists and groups and it's a relief to see that the new government is taking an evidence based, informed and safeguarding children centred approach.

Richie Herron in the Telegraph, also contributions by Stella O'Malley

https://archive.ph/wDw0D so easy to bypass paywalls, other walls though...not so much

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/13/regret-transgender-surgery-nhs-detransition-service/

What he's been through, what he's still suffering seem absolutely horrific. We need a Cass for the adult gender making it up as they go along service.

It's good that the needs of these people are being acknowledged and understood. And maybe some good research could come out of it.

But I worry that detransition could come to be seen as just another valid medical choice, so not really challenging the bad medicine that leads to the need for it.

I've seen detransitioning referred to as just another step in a person's transition journey

Yes that is one way the genderists increasingly spin it.

To be fair many detrans people use the concept too. The reality is so awful who can blame them.

Psychologically, for some people, that probably is how it seems. But not all. And each medical step causes more physical damage. So cheerily encouraging people to take more and more medical steps, to transition physically to one gender, then detransition back to another, transition on to a third... is dangerous. It's a "journey" to nowhere. People need help to figure out where they are and what is healthiest where they are.

Exactly. It’s the only NHS treatment I’ve heard of that is actually intended to damage the patient’s body. In all other cases, mastectomies, amputations etc are intended to prevent worse physical harm, eg from cancer.

Where does this journey end?!