Submitted on Thursday 9th September 2021
Rejected on Thursday 16th September 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Allow transgender individuals access to HRT with informed consent alone.
HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) is an essential treatment for many transgender people, and the current system for accessing it is long and arduous, when any other medicine can just be picked up in the hospital. HRT should be treated like any other treatment and be easily accessible for all.
Many transgender people (a different gender mentally to their sex assigned at birth), especially teens, are forced to wait months to receive gender-affirming hormones (which can be potentially life-saving to some who have suicidal thoughts over their dysphoria). This is because they are forced to go through a slow and complex series of referrals and assessments, which is inconsistent with most other medicine administered by the NHS.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Decisions about patient care and access to medical treatment are a matter for the NHS and individual clinicians, not the Government or House of Commons.
We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:
Increase funding for NHS transgender services: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/594283
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