NHS gender care taken over by ‘secrecy and ideology’, health secretary claims
The health secretary has accused the NHS’s gender care services of being taken over by “secrecy and ideology”, as she vowed a crack down on private gender clinics.
Victoria Atkins claimed in a statement to parliament that a the huge increase in referrals to children’s gender dysphoria services was “driven by a myth” – a week after the Cass review warned children had been failed by the “polarised public debate” around the issue.
She said: “This myth that for their sexuality, or their path in life, that the answer to their questions was inevitably to change gender to solve their feelings
