I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.
Caroline Dodds Pennock
Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS.
These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st).
Forced medical detransition.
This country is a danger to trans children & young people.
I just wrapped up a manuscript that described the Civil Rights Division helping to *de*segregate universities in Alabama and Mississippi, so it's more than a bit jarring to see the current head of the Civil Rights Division pushing things in the other direction.
I think riots is a better term than protests right now, I wish they'd stop talking about protests as if it's some legitimate political activity. It's not, it's a lot of fools destroying things.
Trans adolescents accessing the only NHS route to healthcare (WellBN) have been through a stressful year long transphobic investigation.
For a year they have sat under the threat of forced medical detransition.
With significant negative impacts. 1/2
