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03-31-2016, 04:24 PM
Doctors 'refusing' UK gender dysphoria patients hormone treatments
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LONDON —*Doctors are "failing to help patients with gender dysphoria," a leading British doctor has warned (http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i1694) in the British Medical Journal.*
(http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i1694)
The need for hormone treatment has never been higher, but*“as many as one in five GPs won’t prescribe for people with gender dysphoria, even after expert advice from an NHS clinic," according (http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i1694) to James Barrett the President of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists.
SEE ALSO: ‘She was only called Ms. after she died’: Transgender women in British prisons (http://mashable.com/2015/12/11/transgender-prison-uk/)
The NHS defines (http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Gender-dysphoria/Pages/Introduction.aspx) gender dysphoria as a "condition where a person experiences discomfort or distress because there is a mismatch between their biological *** and gender identity."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/gender-dysphoria-treatment-nhs/)
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LONDON —*Doctors are "failing to help patients with gender dysphoria," a leading British doctor has warned (http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i1694) in the British Medical Journal.*
(http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i1694)
The need for hormone treatment has never been higher, but*“as many as one in five GPs won’t prescribe for people with gender dysphoria, even after expert advice from an NHS clinic," according (http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i1694) to James Barrett the President of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists.
SEE ALSO: ‘She was only called Ms. after she died’: Transgender women in British prisons (http://mashable.com/2015/12/11/transgender-prison-uk/)
The NHS defines (http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Gender-dysphoria/Pages/Introduction.aspx) gender dysphoria as a "condition where a person experiences discomfort or distress because there is a mismatch between their biological *** and gender identity."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/gender-dysphoria-treatment-nhs/)
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