An autistic patient who had his penis removed is suing over NHS treatment given to young people with gender dysphoria

I think you have to accept that people.men and women who aren't trans have asked for unecessary procedures for a long time.I remember reading about people who wanted limbs removed and after councelling the operations were carried out.
This was clearly not in their best interests ..physically but mentally they were deemed fit to make the choice.
I believe in this young mans case the same applies .
I can only reiterate that the young people I KNOW personally who have transitioned are living full and happy lives as their people they want to be.
ONE result like this doesn't tar everyone with the same brush .This man clearly had other problems not discovered or perhaps covered up BY him during the long therapy ..one session a week for years is not by any means too little when the professionals working with him believed what he said and what he wanted his outcome to be

sorry,one session a fortnight ...still a lot of sessions

paddyann54

sorry,one session a fortnight ...still a lot of sessions

It is, but as I said I was wondering about continuity. I know of someone who seems on paper to have had a lot of speech therapy. But speech therapists are an ever changing bunch and she had many different ones, who all seemed to start from scratch. Counselling does need to be consistent to get anywhere and if the counsellor was changing a lot that would impact on the outcome.

MadeInYorkshire

Mental Health Services are run into the ground, and Covid made it far worse as people suffered with lockdowns.

This Govt has deliberately defunded the NHS in the hope that the 'great unwashed' would accept anything to get the help they needed (ie sell it off to themselves and their mates) I don't think that we would be shocked to find most MP's will have their grubby little fingers in the private healthcare/insurance pie.

I blame this defunding on the death of my daughter to suicide in November - she and we begged for proper help for YEARS, but didn't get it. She even tried to kill herself when she was in hospital after an overdose, which would have been fatal had she not been found - the MH lot just let her out from A&E in the evening to fend for herself with no way of getting home (Uni was in rural Gloucestershire) and she was confused, and actually thought that she was here where I lived. She was diagnosed in 2019, but no help then, got upgraded finally after being with services since the age of 9, 6 weeks before she died and that help hadn't yet kicked in. I was referred to the MH Services as my surgery were very concerned about my MH, as I have been suicidal - they called 6 months to the day after she died, but have heard nothing since ....

I blame them, and this will hopefully be recorded at her Inquest.

I am just so sorry about what you and your daughter have been put through. There was a time when NHS funding allowed every single person to feel safe but nowadays. I have a son dying from kidney cancer after been prescribed paracetamol for a year before any mention of an IRM. NHS delay was 3 months so we took him abroad and there he was on the operating table in 10 days. If his GP had got moving, he would still have a fighting chance.

I'm so sorry to hear these things MadeInYorkshire and joycerousselot123.
I have no words for the distress being caused to you.

MadeinYorkshire, joyceroussel, dreadful experiences x