@73inlancs @janethooton_ @ErinInTheMorn @fifi_EY 1/ The 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 government decided pediatric gender care in England would be a monopoly contract (a Labour minister, in 2008), despite all other NHS patients officially being entitled to a choice of providers, & second opinions on diagnoses & treatment, & gave it to GIDS, which has…

@janethooton_ @ErinInTheMorn @fifi_EY 2/…always advocated that trans minors & their families must have no alternative source of care, & subsequent Tory ministers have personally put their signature on renewals of it, and even personally rejected proposals for improvement that have been put forward by NHS England…

@janethooton_ @ErinInTheMorn @fifi_EY 3/…as a result of wider & public consultation. They & their civil servants listen only to GIDS on trans minors - it was GIDS advised against <18s being allowed #GenderRecognition in 2004, & since, on the basis that no one under 18 can be certain of their gender identity, just…

@janethooton_ @ErinInTheMorn @fifi_EY 4/…as many other staff at their trust wrote⬇️ to the press in 2002 (when the first instigator of this case, psychoanalyst Susan Evans was on staff too) that no trans people should be allowed that recognition but needed

@janethooton_ @ErinInTheMorn @fifi_EY 5/…to "cure" us instead. Yet GIDS proved incapable of defending its super-conservative protocol in court - no doubt because GIDS has always expected challenges to be from patients seeking care more like that elsewhere, arrogantly ignoring that services in countries where the…

@mikeroscoe67 @NotRightRuth 1/ Completely untrue. What benefit is there for you in such lies?

The pressure was from medical ethics in the light of what became obvious after GIDS responded to the lead of their 🌍 medical peers & peer clinics.

In 2009 the veteran gender expert Prof Richard Green, recently…

@NotRightRuth 2/…retired head of the world's largest adult GIC - London's Charing Cross - was so disgusted🔗 at the psychoanalytically-based pediatric clinic, GIDS' stubborn refusal to prevent the harm he had seen to those arriving at adult

@NotRightRuth 3/…by neglecting to provide "blockers" (GnRH agonists) other clinics had used for >20yrs(📽️1995) that he organised a conference of 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇧🇪🇩🇪🇬🇧 experts, patients & families on hormone treatment in adolescence with trans patients at @imperialcollege

@NotRightRuth @imperialcollege 4/…advise them. The heads of GIDS - which had sought & just been granted an exclusive national contract - just sat silent the entire day. That so upset Prof Spack🔗📽️ of @BostonChildrens that he announced that any UK family with a trans

@NotRightRuth @imperialcollege @BostonChildrens 5/…who could get to Boston🇺🇸🖼️ would be treated free of charge. Yet it was another 4yrs before those peer clinics finally budged them by showing them that their last ground for refusal - that 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 patients were different & it was impossible for GIDS to know which were trans…