Rosie Duffield is here, at best ignorantly and at worst dishonestly, spreading harmful falsehoods about trans healthcare. No one "so young" gets surgery. You can't have it in the UK as a child.
This is dangerous and harmful propaganda.
This is dangerous and harmful propaganda.
https://twitter.com/ShartiTheClown/status/1443286849401798656
Twitter is a hostile place for all and women suffer more than men. I don't invite threats against anyone. But this gross misrepresentation of reality causes real harm to a beseiged and vulnerable community. It has to be described clearly as what is: a harmful falsehood.
You can't pretend to be a good faith participant in this discussion, you can't pretend to care about the lives of trans people, and stand by silently whilst someone in a position of notional authority, an MP, actively spreads damaging falsehoods.
The only treatment available on the NHS - in theory because in practice it is usually not available - to those under 16 is reversible puberty blockers. Not partially irreversible cross-sex hormones, which you can only get after a further assessment from 16. Or surgery, from 18.
This is a good explainer from @TheEndoSociety. It is the international body of specialists who prescribe hormones: not just to trans people, but to cancer patients, to those with menopausal symptoms and to many others. It has no axe to grind: please read. endocrine.org/news-and-advoc…
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