"NHS patients who are already receiving these medicines for gender incongruence and/or gender dysphoria can continue to access them, as can patients receiving the medicines for other uses."
"We are being treated like criminals"
"We said no to [them] accessing our patient files and they threatened the senior lead doctors [with closure of] the entire practice. They still breached data. "You can't just rip children off these meds years into transition. My daughter is tanner stage five [breast development], she never entered male puberty. Your jaw would drop if you saw her. I can't let these people win.""
An indefinite NHS ban on new puberty blocker prescriptions for under-18s, imposed in December, has provoked strong parental condemnation and reports of severe harm to transgender teenagers. A GP practice in Brighton and Hove that continued prescribing is under investigation by the local Integrated Care Board. The government guidance states existing patients can continue treatment, yet parents report threats to the practice, breaches of patient data and forced withdrawal of medication. Parents describe daughters who completed female puberty on blockers and warn that abrupt medication changes risk suicides and serious psychological harm.
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