GPs coached in trans ideology at annual conference

Surgeries should do more to promote transgender ideology, family doctors have been told.

In training at the annual conference of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), GPs were encouraged to introduce pronoun badges, display LGBT flags and promote gender self-ID at their practices.

Trans Healthcare Coordinator Jason Wood-Ives claimed the measures would help gender-confused young people feel “more comfortable within the GP surgeries”.

Gender self-ID

Wood-Ives told delegates: “You don’t need to have a GRC (gender recognition certificate) or anything to change your gender identity within the NHS, it’s as simple as asking the admin.”

The medic suggested: “A lot of GP surgeries don’t understand how easy that is to do. So looking that up and seeing the policies on that will make things a lot easier.”

Other ideas promoted at the session included posters advertising transgender services for adolescents and “confidentiality statements”.

‘Anti-science’

Fiona McAnena, Director of Campaigns for women’s group Sex Matters, said: “The last thing vulnerable children and their parents need when seeking evidence-based treatment is to have badges, posters and flags that represent a harmful, anti-science agenda pushed in their faces.”

She added: “Distressed children do need better care. That means following the recommendations of the Cass review and not affirming the false premise that they may be born in the wrong body.”

Yet RCGP Chair Professor Kamila Hawthorne said: “It is down to individual practices to implement their own policies on how to ensure equality, inclusivity and diversity.”

Research

Researchers from the Dutch University Medical Center Groningen have shown that most children grow out of ‘gender non-contentedness’ with age.

The study followed 2,772 children from age eleven until 25, to assess how their feelings towards their own gender changed over time.

It concluded: “The results of the current study might help adolescents to realize that it is normal to have some doubts about one’s identity and one’s gender identity during this age period and that this is also relatively common.”

The research also found that gender confusion was more prevalent in females, suggesting this could be because “girls more often believe that being a boy would come with certain advantages than the other way around”.