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Michelle Styles's avatar

And this is the commissioning letter from the NHS to Cass. They are going have a look at the cross sex hormones in the same way that they looked at puberty blockers.

"NHS England will review the use of gender affirming hormones through a process of updated evidence review and public consultation, similar to the rigorous process that was followed to review the use of puberty suppressing hormones. In the meantime, you have made clear that the new providers should be ‘extremely cautious’ when considering whether to refer young people under 18 years for consideration of hormone intervention. In order to support the providers in following your advice we have established a national multi-disciplinary team (MDT) that will review and need to agree all recommendations for hormone intervention, and we are pleased to confirm that Professor Judith Ellis has agreed to chair this MDT on an interim basis while a permanent chair is appointed. The first meeting of this new national MDT will take place later this month.

NHS England has already announced that it is bringing forward its review of the adult service specifications, and we have written to the Chief Executives of the organisations that host the GDCs to inform them that this will be undertaken in the context of a broader, systemic review of the operation and delivery of the GDCs. NHS England will provide more detail very soon, but we envisage it will be informed by the deployment of external quality improvement experts into the services. In view of your advice about the need for caution in the initiation of medical interventions for young people under 18 years of age, our letter instructs the adult gender clinics to implement a pause on offering first appointments to young people below their 18th birthday. This letter also makes clear that NHS England expects full cooperation from the GDCs in the delivery of the data linkage study, on which we have corresponded separately."

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/gender-dysphoria-clinical-programme/implementing-advice-from-the-cass-review/

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Chana Goanna's avatar

I really hope all those doctors who ruined the lives of hundreds of children end up in prison. They need to answer for their crimes.

Thanks for the link to the newly discovered frescoes! How exciting. And my husband says women always approach him when he’s out with our dogs (at least when they were puppies and not so terrifying) so I’m laughing to myself imagining Paris employing the same strategy.

Your kitchen looks so cozy and quintessentially British with the weathered wooden table, terra cotta floor, and kitty on the table. Bad Paddy to jump the gate! Your Hercules looks just like my Koko (named for Koko Taylor, the blues singer). Have a marvelous weekend!

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