 and suggest other surgical procedures backed by the group could become available on the Scottish NHS in future. Among the procedures advocated by WPATH, which trans activists claim is an international authority on trans health but opponents say is an extreme lobby group, are castrations for people who identify as eunuchs. Gender critical activists said the unpublished document backed up fears that transgender healthcare policies in Scotland were being influenced by extremist ideology, with potentially devastating consequences for patients. David Bell, the consultant psychiatrist and Tavistock Clinic whistleblower, said it was 'very troubling indeed' to see the Scottish NHS treat WPATH as an 'authority' on mat){kind=link}
A report seen by The Telegraph calls for ‘barriers’ to gender reassignment surgery to be removed and make operations more widely available
Scotland’s NHS is planning to fast-track irreversible surgeries for transgender patients, documents seen by The Telegraph reveal.
An NHS Scotland report, suggesting new transgender treatment rules, calls for “barriers” to gender reassignment surgery to be removed and proposes radical measures to make operations more widely available.
These include allowing GPs, rather than specialists, to send patients for procedures and that a “single opinion” is enough to refer for surgery in most cases.
Trans patients can “benefit” from operations including mastectomies, breast implants and genital reassignment, as well as hormone treatments, even if they do not experience “distress” about their gender identity, it is claimed.