By Stella O’Malley:- When journalist Hannah Barnes carried out an exposé on the Tavistock for Newsnight in 2019, she was so shocked at what was uncovered that she took time out from working at the BBC to write her book, Time To Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for […]
Author: antonylatham
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) recently published its eighth Standards of Care document (SoC8). It characterises surgery and hormonal interventions for those with a marked sense of gender incongruence as “medically necessary”. It includes a new category of ‘eunuch’ within its remit. Although SOC8 originally specified age limits for surgical and hormonal […]
The current law in Scotland requires applicants who wish to change gender to be aged 18 or over, to provide evidence of a diagnosis of gender dysphoria with assessment by a gender recognition panel, and to have lived in their acquired gender for at least two years. They have to make a declaration that they […]