NHS doctors have been trained how to help transgender patients re-register their sex on public records.
Senior doctors at the adult gender identity clinic at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust carried out a briefing session for GPs and clinical staff on the matter, The Telegraph first reported.
During the session, they reportedly explained ‘how to amend records accordingly to avoid subsequent upset and possible complaints’.
The session advised family doctors on how to refer patients, maintain a ‘lifelong prescription of ‘maintenance hormone therapy’ and alter their recorded sex, providing they have a letter from a GP.
The advice contrasts with a recent review by Professor Alice Sullivan, who examined the dangers of conflating biological sex and gender when considering clinical care, safeguarding and certain cancer screenings.
In the session on Thursday, Dr James Barrett, the lead doctor at the Tavistock’s adult gender identity clinic, told doctors how to change sex markers.
He said: ‘Changing your name is really quite simple and easy, and once you’ve changed your name, you can re-register yourself in your new name and with a new sex marker in very many of the places where we’re all registered: at the bank, at the Gilbert and Sullivan Appreciation Society, and the tax and benefits agency, and down the dentist and on your driving licence.
‘To change the sex marker on your passport, the patient will need a letter. The letter can come from a primary care practitioner [a GP] or can come from the clinic.’
Dr James Barrett (pictured), the lead doctor at the Tavistock’s adult gender identity clinic, told family doctors how to change sex markers
A spokesman for Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust said: ‘Staff from our adult gender identity clinic run information sessions for healthcare professionals.
‘These involve clinician-to-clinician discussions about a range of issues including prescribing, maintenance hormone therapy, birth gender and its implications for routine cancer screening and cardiovascular outcomes.’
Last month, the review warned cancer screenings are being missed and crimes misrecorded because official statistics are ‘corrupted’ by extreme gender ideology.
The government-commissioned report found that biological sex had been erased from official data in the police, NHS and even the military.
Fuelled by activism from within, official bodies replaced sex with ‘gender identity’, putting patients and the public at risk, the independent review found.
The merging of sex and gender had become ‘widespread’ in records over the past decade, it warned.
Women’s rights campaigners called on the Government to act.
Maya Forstater, chief executive of Sex Matters, said: ‘The problems are everywhere, from NHS records that do not record biological sex to police forces that record male sex offenders as women.
‘These corrupted data standards have been set by bureaucrats insulated from the impact of their decisions, and competing for Stonewall awards.
Senior doctors at the adult gender identity clinic at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust carried out a briefing session for GPs and clinical staff on the matter
‘The Government should swiftly implement the recommendations of the review.’
The review by Professor Sullivan, from University College London, found that from 2015, public bodies began collecting information on gender identity rather than biological sex, meaning ‘robust and accurate data’ was lost.
It said a ‘partisan climate’ existed within public bodies – including the Office for National Statistics – that has created a ‘hostile environment’ for those who believe in biological sex.
Professor Sullivan’s report calls for the statistics regulator to urgently carry out a ‘review of activism and impartiality within the civil service’ in relation to official figures.
The 226-page review was commissioned under Rishi Sunak to examine the collection of accurate data and statistics on biological sex. It concludes that there has been a ‘widespread loss of data on sex’ which poses a risk to the public, with this risk particularly high in health and social care settings and among children.
