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Caroline Nokes, chair of the Women and Equalities select committee. (Leon Neal/Getty)
The system of NHS gender clinics that provide transgender healthcare in the UK should be abolished and hormones should be made available from GPs, MPs have been told.
“We think Gender Identity Clinics, as a concept, should be removed and that access to healthcare like hormone treatment can be made through primary care,” Dr Harriet Hutchinson, a community organiser with Action for Trans Health Durham, told a meeting of the Women and Equalities Select Committee on Wednesday (12 May).
She added: “People should have the right to make the changes to their body that they want to. Fundamentally, it is wrong that the psychiatric profession gets to decide whether or not we are who we say we are.”
The NHS West of England Specialist Gender Identity Clinic in Exeter, also known as The Laurels. (Google Maps)
An NHS gender clinic says it’s “very sorry” after it emerged that thousands of patients are languishing on a waiting list that is now five years long.
Patients who were referred by their GP in 2016 are only now being seen for their first appointment at the West of England Specialist Gender Identity Clinic, better known as The Laurels, in Exeter.
There are currently 2,702 people waiting for their first assessment, with 715 currently undergoing treatment at The Laurels, according to figures obtained by
Episode three of the Bristol24/7 Queer Catch-Up: Representation, healthcare, community and more
By Bristol24/7, Friday Mar 12, 2021
Co-hosts Kit and Lowie dive into some of the newest LGBTQ+ stories on Bristol24/7 and spend some time discussing mental health in the queer community with Jack Willis from Changes Bristol.
Kit will, as always, give a run-down of LGBTQ+ news in Bristol, the UK and the world to kick off.
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Then, Kit and Lowie will spend some time discussing the LGBTQ+ Faces of Bristol project run by Karen Freer.
A photo of the judges of the European Court of Human Rights sitting in the courtroom during a hearing. | Reuters/Vincent Kessler
A psychotherapist is taking a university in the United Kingdom to the European Court of Human Rights for not approving him to study cases of people who have surgery to reverse gender reassignment because it is not a “politically correct” topic.
Bath Spa University in England refused permission to 61-year-old James Caspian, a registered U.K. psychotherapist with 10 years of experience in therapy for transgender individuals, to do the study as part of a master’s dissertation because “engaging in a potentially ‘politically incorrect’ piece of research carries a risk to the University.”