New guidance issued to family doctors by NHS Lothian, Scotland’s second-largest health board, urges them to send 16-year-olds questioning their gender to LGBT Health and Wellbeing, a group which has promoted the transition of a five-year-old.
The charity states that it offers “LGBT+ informed and affirmative counselling” which does not involve <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/N4pBb/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/07/trans-first-service-detransition-cass-review-birth-gender/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“inappropriate curiosity or incorrect assumptions” about a person’s gender identity. Critics said the move contradicted the findings of the landmark Cass review, which the Scottish NHS had previously pledged to adopt.
If following the “affirmative” sessions patients as young as 16 still wish to transition, GPs are told to refer them to the Chalmers Gender Identity Clinic, which can recommend prescriptions of hormone treatments as soon as they turn 18.
Full article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/16/scotland-nhs-cass-review-trans-health/
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