NHS England to tell transgender children to medically detransition or face safeguarding referrals

TL;DR: QueerAF has confirmed that leaked guidance seen by the Good Law Project is in use by NHS England. It reveals the 6000+ children currently on the waiting list for the new Children And Young People’s Gender Service are being invited to have their mental health assessed. At these assessments children and their families will be advised to stop gender-affirming treatments, and that if they continue without “appropriate care” they could face safeguarding referrals. It could result in young people being forced to medically detransition.

NHS England is going to give some 6000+ transgender children advice that may leave them no choice but to medically detransition or face safeguarding referrals according to leaked plans, which NHS England has confirmed to QueerAF are in use.

The documents leaked by the say that if young people and families using “unregulated” and “overseas providers” for gender-affirming care they should stop, and if they continue without “appropriate care” they may face safeguarding referrals.

“It’s reasonable to describe this as an attempt to force people to detransition,” Jo Maugham KC, Executive Director of the Good Law Project tells QueerAF.