Author: Claire

Introduction to GIC Report Adult trans healthcare via Gender Identity Clinics (GICs) has been in disarray for many years. With the introduction of multiple pilot schemes. there now exists a situation where multiple models of service provision exist, with some models working significantly better than others. This report shows that the existing ‘specialist service’ model is no longer viable, using data provided by service providers themselves to indicate multiple failures in performance and service delivery. Exec Summary https://translucent.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/TransLucent-Exec-Summary-NHS-Adult-Gender-Services-in-the-UK-Performance-Report-Public.pdf Full Report https://translucent.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/TransLucent-NHS-Adult-Gender-Services-in-the-UK-Performance-Report-Public.pdf Clinic Summary https://translucent.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/TransLucent-Clinic-Summary-NHS-Adult-Gender-Services-in-the-UK-Performance-Report-Public.pdf

While I slog through the final report of The Cass Review, which is like trying to read 400 pages of really bad ‘gender critical’ fan fiction about trans people, I’ve been bookmarking and noting stuff of interest that other people have been discovering in direct or indirect relation to it, as well as responses & critiques. So I thought Id round these up and put them in one place for reference (in no particular order) Suffice to say the abuse of this review to attack trans healthcare is a scandal of frankly monumental proportions, which some are rightly calling #CassGate.…

Trans people invariably suffer gender incongruence, previously known as gender dysphoria. Trans people are not mentally ill, but mental illness is widespread in the trans community because of online hate, massive ongoing trans-hostile press coverage and incredibly long waits at Gender Identity Clinics, often running close to a decade.  Trans people describe gender incongruence as desperation, wrongness, jealousy, loathing, sadness, disgust, hopelessness, self-hate, drowning and, even more disturbingly, rejection, homelessness and suicide.  Taking one’s own life is an act of desperation – leaving family and friends in shock and often wondering if they could have done more. Statistics vary, but…

Yesterday the Office of National Statistics released the next tranche of data on sexuality and gender identity, with a focus on how that intersected across age and ‘sex’. The ONS analysis doesn’t really offer any surprises, despite the attempts by trans hostile activists to muddy the data by trying to force trans people to respond according to what may be on their original birth certificate. Unlike my previous article, I’m going to stay strictly within the ONS data here as I look at trends etc. ONS Findings Let’s start with the stuff the ONS analysed first. The most interesting…

Recently the first tranche of data from the 2021 Census for England & Wales in relation to trans people was released by the Office of National Statistics. In some ways it makes for interesting reading, but ultimately it doesn’t really tell us anything we didn’t already know, and in others it leaves things more muddied overall, thanks to making the “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?” question entirely optional. So, what do we have to work with, and what does it give us in terms of solid or speculative data?  Content warning…

I did a talk recently, and at one point I said, ‘If there’s one thing trans people are not short of, it’s courage’. And it’s the absolute truth. From the battlefields of the war torn Ukraine and the dancefloors of nightclubs in Colorado, to the streets of the UK, the individual struggles are different – but the courage remains. There’s a point where courage and fear are pretty much indistinguishable. Many of us cross that point in our own journeys, when we step outside as ourselves for the first time, and many of us do it on a daily basis,…

In this second article I’m going to look at the referrals process outlined in the interim service spec. In order to understand just how bad this is, it’s worthwhile to understand broadly what the current referral’s process is – or rather was. Note : Im going to use CYP throughout to refer to Children or Young People / Person. Referrals Then & Now Previously, referrals into the GIDS service could be made by a range of professionals in various organisations in addition to GPs – schools & colleges, social services and voluntary organisations such as Mermaids & Gendered Intelligence, among others.…

As most of you reading will be aware, the NHS released its new interim service specification for the treatment of trans & gender diverse (TGD) children and young people last week. This is the service spec proposed for the two new ‘regional’ centres that replace GIDS to use. Supposedly it’s based on the findings of the Cass Review, and I can well believe it given that Review is inherently cis-biased and trans hostile, and has been from the start. The purpose of this series of articles is to summarise at a high level the major issues with this new…

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