By Ben Hunte, BBC News
Young people with gender identity issues are suffering "psychological torture" because of how long it is taking to receive specialist NHS help.
Teenage referrals to the Tavistock Centre in London have risen 42% in a year, with 2,016 referrals in 2016-17.
This follows a …
more ...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 ...Admitting you were uncomfortable with your gender or wanted to change it was virtually unheard of years ago.
But that didn't mean it didn't exist. Many people instead lived an oppressed existence rather than risk losing their family and friends, and being shunned by society.
Although attitudes are now changing …
more ...West London Mental Health Trust (WLMHT) announced yesterday that it has served notice on the contract it has with NHS England to provide care to trans patients at the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic.
In the recent government …
more ...A huge rise in demand for services for trans people has seen the UK’s largest gender identity clinic move to a new provider for transition services.
The West London Mental Health Trust gave notice on their contract with NHS England today …
more ...The NHS Trust that housed the UK’s primary transgender healthcare clinic has served notice that it will end the service – in a bid to hand it off to another provider.
The Gender Identity Clinic at Charing Cross has been helping transgender people since 1966, and is governed by West …
more ...There have been repeated warnings in the past few years that NHS gender identity services are struggling to keep up with a surge in demand across a range of services.
Parliament’s Women and Equalities Select Committee …
more ...Legal processes for registering a change of gender are to be overhauled to make them less distressing for transgender people.
The move is part of a package of reforms unveiled by the equalities minister, Nicky …
more ...Many trans people have reacted in anger to the UK government’s trans equality report released today (7 July).
The new package, which includes a review of the Gender Recognition Act, says very little of note.
Nicky Morgan, the Women and Equalities Minister …
more ...This is the report of the Care Quality Commission into the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic and their inspection took place on 19th and 20th January 2016.
They seem to have dug quite deeply into the workings of the clinic and have found areas where the clinic is not meeting …
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 ...Sarah Brown's Blog, UK
Posted on 14 January, 2016
This morning, the government’s Women and Equalities Committee released its first report on transgender equality, detailing its recommendations. They fall into a few broad areas:
There are currently seven adult Gender Identity Clinics in England for those who are 17 or older:
Information from Will Huxter, NHS England.
The Chair of the NHS England Gender Identity Task and Finish Group reflects on a new top-level report on transgender issues:
Welcome to my latest blog on gender identity services.
I want to say something about the report of the Women and Equalities Select …
more ...This is the report of the 'House of Commons - Women and Equalities Committee' their 'First Report of Session 2015–16' which was published on January 14, 2016 which has some very interesting conclusions and recommendations. You can download it here - Transgender Equality
These are some of the conclusions that I …
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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