This isn’t the first time this has happened. In 2021, it emerged that Northern Ireland’s only gender identity clinic hadn’t accepted a single new patient since 2018. The Sandyford in Glasgow stopped taking new patients for its youth services for a while last year too.
Even where new patients are being accepted, the backlog isn’t being cleared quickly enough. According to a freedom of information request earlier this month, trans people in Yorkshire can expect to wait thirty-five years for a first appointment at current clearance rates.
The reason for this awful state of affairs is because there aren’t enough staff or resources to cope with demand for healthcare that remains part of the desperately underfunded and short-staffed mental health division of the desperately underfunded and short-staffed NHS.
So, according to Bigmouth, trans is a mental health issue.
OK, to be treated with lithium and a chat, not surgery then?
Mr W, you should start a thread, or indeed a blog, devoted to the Great Leftist Excuse i.e. underfunding.
Incompetence, laziness, and greed in the NHS? Underfunding!
Theft from the British Museum? Underfunding!
I kid you not.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/24/british-museum-theft-underfunding-of-uk-sector-has-weakened-safeguarding-of-collections-museums-body-says
At last some good news
Sorry to be brutal but if “gender affirming” drugs and butchery are essential to prevent widespread suicides these delays should mean that the allegedly large number of such people have already been topping themselves en masse over the past decade.
I wonder if the actual numbers back this up.
John @ 5.16, strangely enough I looked at the suicide numbers a couple of days ago, wondering if lockdowns had had an impact on the number of suicides. According to the ONS (and to my great surprise), there have been fewer since 2019.
So this ‘backlog’ and ‘awful state of affairs’ isn’t having a noticable impact on people offing themselves then.
Considering the number of people who realise they’re something else, or more accurately claim to be, has been rising exponentially in recent years that really puts the “increasing risk of suicide” theory to bed.
I’m also amazed by that statistic as I would have bet the house on suicides brought about by increased depression and mental stress during lockdowns pushing the total sky high.
Playing devils advocate is there a possibility that any suicides who posthumously tested positive for Covid might have been allocated as such by the ONS?
One imagines that Tykes everywhere will welcome this.
“…So this ‘backlog’ and ‘awful state of affairs’ isn’t having a noticable impact on people offing themselves then…”
No, they were all recorded as COVID related. That or urban air polution.
Short-staffed NHS? I though they employed 15% of the entire population. It certainly feels like more than that when I’m in my local supermarket and it seems every second person is wearing am NHS logo.
Will they stop screaming when they employ 100% of the population and consume 100% of GDP?
If there have been fewer suicides since access to NHS mental health services was curtailed in 2020 (and a waiting list has built up since then), it would suggest that access to NHS mental health services is a substantial cause of suicide.
trans people in Yorkshire can expect to wait thirty-five years for a first appointment
On Ilkla Moor Baht wat
The standard theory is that lockdowns took away the peer pressure and cries for attention that were pushing girls into thinking they were boys. Removed from the pressure cooker of high school, girls realised that there was more to life and quickly dropped the idea.
(Ex-men make all the noise, but most of the sharp rise in recent years has been amongst teenage girls.)