Dozens of children wrongly prescribed gender meds in Brighton BBC report

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c932y3q09qro

This is a surprisingly clear and balanced report.

So do they have good malpractice insurance?

A year later, his daughter stopped taking the hormone [testosterone] after it "didn't make her happy" and is now living as a girl again.

So much for desistance and regret being rare.

Hidden in Local News I see.

https://can-sg.org/2025/08/22/protecting-children-the-nhs-sussex-controversy/ Rachel Cashman of PSHE Brighton writes about conflict of interest in the investigation itself. Trust marking its own homework, basically.

Also, throwback to 2024: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5235403-another-legal-case-family-sues-nhs-for-prescribing-child-cross-sex-hormones

It was on the BBC broadcast news, too. I was only half-listening, but heard it on Thursday evening, probably BBC R4.
I don’t live anywhere near Brighton so it must have been national news, possibly PM or the Six o’clock News.

There's already a thread about this which also has links to threads from when it was first reported some months ago.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5541360-hove-gp-put-kids-at-harm-by-prescribing-hormones-without-proper-assessment-or-monitoring-damning-report-finds

Also a thread about the NHS report itself. (as PP)

Sorry I looked last night but missed the other thread. Interesting that it’s now moved to local news - it was main page when I saw it last night.

I was looking for it on the bbc website because there was a reference to the story on X but couldn’t/ didn’t find it. It seems to me to be an important story.