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Gender Identity Clinics: Genesis and Unoriginal Sin

The Laurels GIC in Exeter

Giving evidence to the Women and Equalities Committee on 8 September 2015, Dr John Dean authoritatively summarised the genesis of gender identity clinics [GICs]: 

“there is quite considerable diversity of opinion between different clinicians and different clinics. All seven gender clinics in England arose out of the special interest of an individual a long time in the past. There has not been a lot of planning of their development, and there certainly is no training pathway for medical practitioners or others who work in this field.” [1]

Who were these individuals ‘a long time in the past’, how did they come to define the lives of trans people, and why are GICs such a focus of criticism from the patients they exist to serve?

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Features International Lived Experience

Coming from abroad, falling between the cracks

by a community member I arrived at the dimly lit Heathrow in the dead of winter. “You have a good day, sir,” said the immigration officer as I first set […]

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Press Releases and Statements

Statement on the leaked information about EHRC’s approach to trans rights

The reports from VICE news this afternoon, outlining the draft guidance on single-sex spaces the EHRC is considering, are incredibly alarming, For the EHRC to even think that it’s in […]

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Press Releases and Statements

Statement on the EHRC’s comments on Scotland’s GRA and the proposed ban to conversion therapy

TransActual expresses its disappointment at the EHRC’s failure, once again, to understand that they need to protect the rights of trans people as well as everyone else. Today’s EHRC statement, […]

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Media News Transphobia

BBC Cover-up?

Picture of BBC Broadcasting House at night
BBC Broadcasting House

It began with a piece on October 26 headlined lesbians pressured into sex by some trans women. There’s no demographic whose every member is pure as the driven snow. That is why we do not expect to read screeds based on dubious surveys by hate groups setting out the argument of that same hate group. Would the BBC run a story alleging some cis women are pressured into sex by lesbians?

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Healthcare International News

Activists Heat Up Following a ‘Summer of Trans Rage’

Trans Zorg Nu Protest - Amsterdam - 26 June 2021
Trans Zorg Nu Protest - Amsterdam - 26 June 2021

Dutch trans activists took to the streets on the 26th of June, marching past the Amsterdam University Medical Centres, home to the Centre for Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, the gender identity clinic (GIC) where around 80% of Dutch trans people are assessed. “This was definitely symbolic, as participants screamed Fuck het VU! Trans zorg nu! — Fuck the GIC! Trans healthcare now,” writes vreer verkerke, a Dutch trans healthcare activist. The 500-strong protest, organised by the group Trans Zorg Nu, inaugurated the start of their campaign ‘Summer of Trans Rage.’ 

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