SNP to reject calls to shut ‘tartan Tavistock’ child gender clinic
by Daniel Sanderson, Telegraph:
Health minister says clinicians prescribing controversial drugs such as puberty blockers follow ‘very high standards’.
The SNP will reject calls to shut Scotland’s “tartan Tavistock” child gender clinic, one of Humza Yousaf’s health ministers has said.
Maree Todd also insisted Scottish clinicians prescribing controversial drugs such as puberty blockers were following “very high standards”.
The minister said there would be no “snap judgement” over possible reforms but appeared to rule out wholesale changes to child gender services north of the border, suggesting many parts of the damning Cass report for NHS England did not apply to Scotland.
She also admitted that trans rights activists with no medical training, some of whom have already denounced aspects of Dr Cass’s findings, could be given a formal role as part of a Scottish Government “review” of the work.
The SNP has faced demands to immediately suspend the use of puberty blockers, after Hilary Cass, the paediatrician, last week warned the drugs were potentially dangerous and said there was little credible evidence of their effectiveness.
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