From April 2017, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust will be the providers for the Charing Cross West London Gender Identity Clinic for one year on an interim basis. The service moves from West London Mental Health Trust which served notice on their contract for the services earlier this …
more ...Updated information about the waiting lists for genital surgery at Charing Cross have been published. Please note that this is statistics for the surgical team at Charing Cross, regardless of which GIC the patient has been referred from. Also it is not currently possible to get information about waiting …
more ...Published - 2015-12-08
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (who provide vaginoplasty, vulvoplasty and related GRS at Charing Cross hospital) have confirmed a new surgeon, Roland Moorley, will begin seeing patients later this month. They have also confirmed that they will shortly be transferring additional patients to Parkside Hospital. These changes are …
more ...Having recently found an old copy of the "GENDER REASSIGNMENT – CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL. CLINICAL MANAGEMENT POLICY." on an old backup. I had thought of posting it here, except my copy was dated around 2000 so I thought that there must be a newer copy somewhere. Well, if there was, I …
more ...Published: August 2015
We will update our FAQs monthly in order to provide you with the most up-to-date information about our gender reassignment service and its performance.
As of the end of July 2015:
Published: August 2015
We will update our FAQs monthly in order to provide you with the most up-to-date information about our gender reassignment service and its performance.
As of the end of July 2015:
There are 377 people on our waiting list.
No. Everyone is different. Dress and act as you feel most comfortable. This is a safe space and anything that people generally wear in public is fine.
No. As an NHS clinic we are free to patients …
more ...No. Transsexualism and Gender Identity Disorder are listed in psychiatric manuals because of the distress the unresolved condition can cause, which sometimes leads to suicide. This severe distress consequently requires NHS funded interventions aimed at resolving a person’s conflict between their …
more ...A radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 19 December 2014.
The second in a two-part series, with this one covering trans-women.
Download the mp3 file - Becoming Myself - 2014-12-19
more ...A radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 12 December 2014. This is a mp3 file of 28MB size.
A revealing series which goes inside the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic in Hammersmith, London - the largest and oldest in the world - to explore the condition of gender dysphoria. This …
more ...The NHS Trust at which the surgeon responsible for the bulk of male-female gender reassignment surgeries in the UK is based, has confirmed that he will be replaced after resigning.
PinkNews received calls from concerned readers at the announcement by James Bellringer, who currently takes on the majority of vaginoplasty …
more ...The WLMHT ('Charing Cross') Gender Identity Clinic has existed in one form or another since the early 1960s, and clinical practice is constantly evolving. It is perhaps inevitable that, in that time, a number of false beliefs and misconceptions have arisen.
Not all these beliefs are 'myths' in the sense …
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