The NHS is to launch its first ever service for transgender patients wanting to return to the gender they were born as.
The move comes in the wake of the Cass Review, an independent report into transgender services, which found that children were being hurried down “affirmative” pathways involving powerful drugs and medical interventions.
The review made a series of recommendations to the NHS, including to provide care for people who had changed their minds after transitioning, and warned health leaders not to use the same medics previously involved in their care.
NHS England published its plans to “transform” care for gender-questioning children on Wednesday, and accepted the recommendations of Dr Hilary Cass’s report in full.
They include developing the first NHS service to treat transgender patients who want to return to their gender at birth.
A service for something that never happens? For as we keep being told no one does regret……
Wouldn’t this fall under the ban on “conversion therapy”?
Should this come about I imagine there will be mostly peaceful protests outside the clinics. Because it’s very easy to protest, holding your little standard issue socialist worker placard, when you know for a fact you’re not going to get indiscriminately arrested for just standing around.
Why does it require a specialised unit, and not the same one? If I get the garage to install something on my car and decide I don’t like it after all, I take it back to the same garage to have it taken out.
Surely the doctors who installed the artificial fanny can remove it?
Of course, I’d prefer them to ban conversion therapy for all children.
When I look in the mirror, I’m sure they’d have no trouble in finding enough stupid adults to keep them busy.
But but but, ‘Gender’ is not associated with physical characteristics. I can feel like a woman and still have a beard and willy. So what they need is some head doctoring.
This is returning some semblance of the physical characteristics of their sex, that were mutilated because of a lack of head doctoring in the first place.
NHS invents Reverse Neutering.
@JuliaM:
Maybe it’s because the original medics are expected to be struck off and in jail, and they’re concerned about continuity of care?
One can hope…
John:
“Should this come about I imagine there will be mostly peaceful protests outside the clinics. Because it’s very easy to protest, holding your little standard issue socialist worker placard, when you know for a fact you’re not going to get indiscriminately arrested for just standing around.”
Unless you’re outside an abortion clinic praying silently. Maybe that’s where they are going wrong – not having a Socialist Worker placard to wave.
“Surely the doctors who installed the artificial fanny can remove it?”
I can see a need for long term cryogenic storage of removed body parts. When the poor sods realise they’ve made a bad decision, their original bits can be thawed out and put back on. But it would only be a matter of time before someone instigates a com-pen-say-shun claim because the wrong cock was used…
KevinS:
They have not paid their tithe and have expressed no allegiance to the Holy Socialist Church, and hence are heretics that must be suppressed.
Other have made the same point: how are they going to sew the meat’n’veg back on?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067568/
jgh ” Other have made the same point: how are they going to sew the meat’n’veg back on?”
Most of the ones wanting the return trip never had the meat’n’veg removed to begin with, and the F->M’s may have had the baby factory removed, but not done the final fake meat’n’veg cosmetics.
So it’s mostly a matter of removing/inserting breast implants, some legal paperwork, and dealing with the ravages the hormone treatments visited unto their bodies. The latter being the real, expensive, long-term biatch.
Good thing is the treatments do leave them 99% sterile, so we won’t have to enforce the “headcases should not have kids” all that much. So their Madness will mostly disappear in another generation.
How about a policy that the NHS does neither conversions nor de-conversions? There are umpteen things that the NHS should stop e.g. mass screening for breast and prostate cancer, distributions of statins, flu jabs, and on and on. These things are known to be ineffective, or so little effective that they make no economic sense, or plain do more harm than good.
A panel of sceptical doctors in or near retirement should be appointed to recommend treatments for the chop, if you’ll pardon the expression.
dearime,
I don’t think they do mass prostate screening? My cancer was only picked up because I asked my doc to add PSA to the battery of blood tests he was ordering. No other symptoms it was just a reflex request.
@BiG
Probably those trying to persuade them not to convert back would. Oh the irony of trans activists being among the first to be prosecuted under a conversion therapy law…
Dear Mr. Worstall,
Having self-identified as a lettuce at the age of 11, the NHS allowed my entire skin surfaceto be tattooed green. Since that time I have lived in fear of being included in someone’s salad. You have no idea what terror can be induced by seeing a bottle of vinaigrette in a grocery store!
Recently, the realization that I may have been mistaken about who or what I am, has taken hold.
Transitioning back will be an arduous trek. The laser treatments to remove the green dye will take years and is estimated to cost over 100,000 quid. Fortunately this cost will be covered by the NHS.
Continue your good work.