A former nurse has lost a High Court legal challenge over the health watchdog’s decision to register England’s first private clinic offering gender treatment to young people.
Susan Evans and a mother known as XX took legal action against the Care Quality Commission (CQC) over its decision to register the Gender Plus Hormone Clinic (GPHC) in Birmingham in January last year.
The two also challenged the regulator’s decision last December to continue the clinic’s registration and to allow it to prescribe cross-sex hormone treatment to 16 and 17-year-olds without conditions.
In a ruling on Thursday, Mrs Justice Eady dismissed the claim, saying there was “no irrationality in the decisions reached” and they were within the “rational range” of options available to the watchdog.
Full article at https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/former-nurse-loses-legal-challenge-over-registration-of-private-gender-clinic/ar-AA1JEA6I
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