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Children barred from getting new trans identity with NHS (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Transgender children will be banned from getting a new NHS record following an intervention by Wes Streeting.

The health service has been ordered to stop issuing new NHS numbers to under-18s who want to change their gender, following a damning independent review.

Until now, adults or children of any age have been allowed to request a gender change on their medical record at any time.
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Mr Streeting, the Health Secretary, declared that “children’s safety must come first” as he confirmed the changes on Thursday.

He said: “It’s completely wrong that children’s NHS numbers can be changed if they change gender, and I’ve made it clear this must not happen.

“We must deliver safe and holistic care for both adults and children when it comes to gender, and that also means accurately recording biological sex – not just for research and insight, but also for patient safety.

“I have always made it clear that doing so does not stop us from recording, recognising and respecting people’s gender identity where these differ.

“As we reform gender identity services across the board, we’ll take forward the serious research this review highlights.”

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wes Streeting yet again jumping at the chance to make trans people's lives worse. Honestly don't think 'Tory-lite' does him justice anymore.

Some context to who wrote this "damning independent review":

The biased nature of this review was already clear. Not just from the leading questions used by the survey which presuppose that gender diversity and those researchers engaged in work to understand it are part of a sinister plot to silence and abuse ‘gender critical feminists’. But also from the way that Sullivan was commissioned by Michelle Donelan, then Conservative Secretary of State for DSIT, who then refused to answer any basic questions about the review’s ethics application.

The most clear sign of bias however is the choice of lead author. Prof. Alice Sullivan is a prominent anti-trans activist and advisory group member of the leading anti-trans lobby group, Sex Matters, notable for her work on UK literacy. The report also contains legal advice written by the husband of the Chair of the Sex Matters’ Trustee Board, Naomi Cunningham, and research was commissioned for the review to an organisation led by fellow member of the Sex Matters’ advisory group Lucy Hunter Blackburn. There is no evidence of the involvement of any trans person in the conducting of this analysis.