NHS exhausting £100m a year on ‘damaging’ trans procedures

The NHS has spent at least £250 million on transgender procedures for children and adults in England in the last five years, it has been reported.

According to The Mail on Sunday, Freedom of Information requests reveal that during the first ten months of 2024-25 the figure was £88 million — 20 per cent higher than the entirety of the previous twelve months.

The data does not include the cost of surgical procedures for three years, or any costs involving the prescription of cross-sex hormones, meaning the estimated total figure for NHS spending on trans procedures is over £100 million a year.

‘Obscene’

At least £48 million was used on adult ‘sex-change’ surgeries such as mastectomies over the last two years, while the amount spent on children’s non-surgical procedures rocketed 50 per cent from £17.5 million in 2023-24, to £26.5 million in 2024-25 up to January.

Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder and Director of Transgender Trend, stated: “NHS England’s job is to treat medical problems yet they are creating medical problems where none previously existed.

“To spend so much on damaging people’s bodies for no evidenced reason is unacceptable and in the case of children unconscionable.”

Director of Campaigns for Sex Matters Fiona McAnena agreed, adding: “£250 million is an obscene amount for the NHS to spend on experimental and often dangerous surgeries for people who want to look more like the opposite sex.”

Mothers

The NHS is also under fire for LGBT-affirming language, with The Sunday Telegraph reporting that several NHS trusts have advertised midwifery roles which refer to ‘birthing people’ instead of ‘mothers’.

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust was hiring a midwife to provide “intra partum and postnatal care to birthing people”, while Whittington Hospital NHS Trust required candidates to be able to meet “birthing people’s individual needs”.

A Department of Health spokesman emphasised that the NHS should be addressing the “urgent problem” of childbirth trauma, warning: “Unnecessarily erasing the word ‘mothers’ from NHS documents is a waste of time and confusing for patients.”

In response, an NHS spokesman stated: “These job adverts are produced by local NHS organisations, which should aim to treat everyone with respect and encourage the recruitment of midwives.”

‘Cruelty’

Last month, The Telegraph reported that thousands of gender-confused young women have been referred for mastectomies on the NHS.

Freedom of Information requests revealed that 3,490 women were approved for “masculinising chest surgery” between 2021 and 2023, with a slight rise each year. In addition, more than 780 women were referred for “masculinising genital gender reassignment surgery” over three years.

Approximately 80 per cent of women who use the NHS’s Gender Dysphoria National Referral Support Services are between 17 and 25 years old.

A spokesman from Bayswater Support Group, an organisation supporting families with gender-confused children, said: “There is a particular cruelty for parents in finding that taxpayers are funding mastectomies on thousands of women who have been misled into believing this will be the answer to their psychological distress.”