Campaigners warn of ‘staggering increase’ in GPs denying trans care
No institutions and medical professionals warned in GPS on a “surprising increase”, which rejects the care of the gender, even if requested by a specialist clinic.
Campaigns told Independent Increased number of trans people are rejected by the GPS GPS, hormone replacement treatment is rejected, doctors claim that they are not authorized to provide services or are not affiliated to the contract.
This caused people like Matthew Lyon, a trans man from Southwest Scotland, to lose their confidence in medical practitioners, and even to avoid hormone replasman treatments and doctors.
The 27 -year -old said that after the GP stopped hormone treatment, his mental health was “ejaculated”.
GP refused to prescribe or apply hormone treatment proposed by an expert sexual health care, because he was “unlicensed for the proposed situation and that long -term security data is missing”.
Mr Lyon’s previous GP prescribed Nebido, an injection of an injection of testosterone replacement treatment for male hypogonadism in England. The out -of -label is widely used as a treatment option for gender dysphoris.
Without a doctor to implement Nebido, Mr. Lyon experienced a “mini -menopause” because he had a delayed testosterone from the testosterone that should be applied every 11 weeks.
“In general, I don’t have the best mental health, and it is clear that it is clearly stable hormone balances helps all of it,” he said. “But that’s a little hormonal hurricane.
Orum I hesitate to do my blood work if a doctor saw something they don’t like and then everything stops, and said that he felt that he wouldn’t register for a new application for months.
Transacual Director Chay Brown said that the charity has seen a “surprising increase” in GPS, which has refused to prescribe trans people since spring last year.
Independent Previously, an important factor affecting transsexual people with hormone therapy was an independent examination of gender identity services for children and young people in NHS, which led to the prohibition of adolescence preventives as gender dysphoric treatment.
Mr. Brown said that the terms “women” and “gender ında in the Equality Act of the Supreme Court in April decided that the terms referring to a biological woman and biological gender.
“It continues to be a problem,” he said. “Trans people are rejected the same medicine where the BDS people are given without questioning. For people who are already in HRT.
There are many reasons that claim that they do not make a contract to provide this service from GPS, and of course, in an unknown number of cases, better than old -fashioned bigotry.
Mr. Brown says that the aid organization has heard the reports that GPS’s trans people refused to care every week, and that in the previous years he will only hear occasionally cases.
“These are just what we hear,” he said. “Trans people usually expect to be seen by a NHS gender clinic. An extra slap on his face when they refuse to prescribe the officially recommended drugs for GPs.”
Dr. Kamila Kamaruddin, a GP and chief clinician in the Eastern Gender Service of England, agreed that the GPS incidence did not prescribe hormone therapy, referring to lack of expertise or was not financed under a joint care agreement.
“We had situations that the GPs have prescribed for years and then decided not to prescribe for various reasons,” he said, the reason why many hormone treatment was unlicensed for trans people was that medical companies could not conduct random trials on Cisgender people.
Kamaruddin, “In general, we have prescribed unlicensed drugs for years,” he said. “The problem of unlicensed drugs should not be an obstacle to providing a prescription for hormone treatment.
GMC and RCGP offers guidance to writing trans medical care prescription, said, “I have heard too much GP saying that we do not have expertise. So if you do not have expertise, we provide a lot of education to local GPs,” he added.
Dr Kamaruddin warned that the sudden stop of hormone treatment may have a “a great impact on mental health and that patients could commit suicide for this reason”.
A NHS spokesman said: uk For patients with gender dysphoria, NHS UK has established a series of expert gender services in the primary maintenance assigned by expert GPs to provide timely support to colleagues.
“In addition, with the launch of five new adult gender pilot clinics, we have invested twice as much as gender dysphoria services by increasing the number of adult gender dysphoria clinics in the UK from seven to 12.”
A Scottish Government Spokesman: “Cross hormone therapy for adult transgender patients is a specialized area provided by a combination of healthcare professionals. Each patient has suitable procedures in gender services to direct patients to direct NHS Scotland to four adult gender identity clinics or young people.
“Any concern about delivery or maintenance within the scope of GP contract arrangements will be a subject for other issues through the relevant GP applications of the patients, through the application manager or through the NHS Board.”
