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@HarryJosieGiles 1/ You may not be familiar with transition problems faced by trans minors in the UK, especially outside Scotland. For decades the government/NHS were able to ban all transition by having commital to asylums (including ECT) as official policy. This was replaced in 1989 by a…
@HarryJosieGiles 2/… monopoly, psychoanalytically-led clinic that refused any medical intervention even when the HBIGDA SOC allowed HRT at 16, & tried its best to discourage any transition, not least by promoting hopelessness. It promulgated national guidelines so no other doctor dared treat…
@HarryJosieGiles 3/… minors differently. Doctors who helped patients independently have consistently been ruined. Any patient even having sought treatment elsewhere was denied all further NHS gender treatment until adult. All that was endorsed as government policy - signed off personally by…
