The number of adults in the U.K. being treated for gender dysphoria on the NHS has risen 75% in five years, and many patients are being given oestrogen, a drug that is in very short supply amidst a nationwide shortage of drugs for hormone replacement therapy, of which oestrogen is the most popular. MailOnline has the story.
Latest figures for 2021 show more than 11,000 patients received care for the condition that causes sufferers to feel they were born the wrong gender.
This is 74% more compared to the 6,371 patients being treated in 2016.
A gender dysphoria diagnosis is the first step to getting prescribed cross-sex hormone therapies that help trans people develop the characteristics of their preferred gender.
It comes amid a nationwide shortage of hormone replacement therapy which is also used to help alleviate the symptoms of the mesopause.
Around 1,600 trans patients were prescribed the female hormone oestrogen in 2021, the most popular HRT drug that is most short in stock.
However, the total figure is believed to be higher because data is only available for four out of the 12 of the gender clinics that provided information to MailOnline.
A current HRT shortage has left menopausal women rationing doses, trading supplies in car parks or turning to the black market.
MailOnline complied the data on gender dysphoria based on Freedom of Information (FOI) requests sent to 12 NHS gender clinics in the U.K.
Of these, 11 provided data on their patient numbers stretching back to 2016, or to when they first opened.
Only four of the services were able to provide the number of patients prescribed oestrogen as part of their treatment, meaning the total is likely higher.
Overall there were 11,085 gender dysphoria patients being treated in 2021/22, compared to 6,371 in 2016/17.
Of the 2021 patients 1,592 were prescribed oestrogen.
While the numbers of women on HRT dwarfs the number of transgender people receiving cross-sex hormone ‘therapies’ – about a million British women are taking HRT of some sort, with prescriptions hitting over 500,000 in February alone – many would say that the correct number of men being given drugs on the NHS to help them appear more like a woman should be zero, even more so at a time of shortage when actual women are in desperate need of them.
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“…as Hundreds are Prescribed Female Hormones Desperately Needed for Women on HRT.”
Really? Isn’t HRT a scam too?
Two downticks, one from Pfizer and one from Bayer.
Novartis joins the frenzy.
Big Pharma and the uniformed are out in force this evening.
Erratum: “uninformed” though many may be from the 77th Brigade.
Probably, but I think the point is that Covid-19 and LGBT get priority over everyone and everything else.
you are correct
That may be the point, but the title of this article claims that HRT is “desperately needed” even though hormones given to women around the time of the menopause are harmful. So here, on the Daily Sceptic, a site that rails against Big Pharma and the harm caused by so-called vaccines, I’m receiving downticks aplenty for simply pointing out a related medical/pharmaceutical scam.
That’s the burden sceptics carry.
Many were attracted here because they didn’t like the idea of lockdowns or vaccinations etc. Suddenly they became sceptics.
Ukraine pops up and many of them demonstrate they are no more sceptical that anyone else. Trans issues appear, and many more fall by the wayside.
Facts are tough to deal with.
You are either male or a female not suffering from the massive hormone changes brought about by the menopause. It sure as hell is not a scam for those women who do suffer from the drop in oestrogen levels
Well they seem to have managed well enough for thousands and thousands of years without Pfizer’s help. Hormonal changes are part of life, but Pfizer et al have made them a source of revenue with no consideration of the harm caused by HRT.
FYI I am male as I assume from your moniker you are, but that has absolutely nothing to do with my argument which could equally have been made by a woman going through the menopause. I’ve never suffered from morning sickness and yet I feel confident that any argument I make against the use of thalidomide to treat morning sickness will be sound.
A downtick…from the makers of thalidomide?
Mostly programmed by the Dept of Education’s LGBT infant grooming service?
All paid for by the taxpayer.
Crazy world we live in.
there must be a correlation between the media banging on about trans people and more people wanting NHS treatment for “gender dysphoria”. five yrs is a long time these days and the media have pushed this ideology for a while now. There was a point someone made in the US that memorial day was one day but pride month was a whole months worth, does not seem quite fair really.
it also seems creepy when a child not is questioning their gender etc.
February too was given over to LGBT+ promotion
edit, I did mean its creepy when a child is questioning their gender, could not edit last comment as run out of time.
Old age doesn’t come alone I’m afraid…….
Maybe we should celebrate Remembrance month.
Bombardier Gloria BeaumontIt was featured in the factual Documentary ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’ as I recall.
It seems to have been Pride month and Black History month all year!
Never used HRT but I suppose I shouldn’t be against the use of repurposed drugs. Tough times for the women denied it, having become used to it.
They’re not being denied it. There’s, perhaps, a shortage. It’s not life threatening to go without for a week or so I don’t think.
From what I’ve heard, it was being rationed or simply unavailable. Not life threatening perhaps, but enough to make life miserable and physically uncomfortable; I’ve had a milder form of such symptoms and self-medicated with OTC things for several years so I have some sympathy for women unlucky enough to experience more severe symptoms.
(But that’s just women, of course, so it doesn’t matter – at least to transactivists. I’d like to see them go through the hot flushes, the burning sensations and night-sweats endured by true females going through a bad menopause.)
Probably is for the husband!
I seem to recall reading somewhere that when glossy women’s magazines made their way to island communities in the south Pacific, they were followed by an epidemic of eating disorders as women began to consider themselves too fat.
Womens Magazines.
Page 4: You’re beautiful just the way you are.
Page 5: Lose a dress size in time for the beach
Page 6: Cake recipe.
So… women who want to be more womanly are being beaten to drugs that apparently make you more womanly by men who think they aren’t womanly enough.
Did I get that right?
Yep: it all reminds me of a twisted palindrome, ‘Adam? I’m madam!’
Castration of these males would be the best way forward as it would dramatically speed up the process to trans to females and leave the hormones to the real females. QED.
So 11,000+ volunteering to become potentially sterile?… Who is it who’s behind all the funding for LGBT+ promotion and what are their views on eugenics and glbal population??
I think we have a right to be very angry about this…
let’s get a sense of proportionality here.
6,500 patients with trans inclinations is 0.01% of the UK population.
11,000 patients with trans inclinations is 0.018% of the population.
1,000,0000 women taking HRT is 1.6% of the population.
We like to think we live in a tolerant society, and whilst trans ideology may be littered with chancers, there are many genuine cases who might otherwise resort to self abuse or suicide without help.
The question is, are women who need HRT really being ‘deprived’ wholesale or is it a case of inconvenience and perhaps a disrupted supply.
I don’t believe HRT therapy is life defining, unless it’s wholly denied.
Tolerant is one thing but using taxpayers money to fund “sex changes” for people who are under a delusion is another. No one is born in the wrong body.
That’s another matter.
I happen to agree with you other than in some cases the condition comes with serious mental health conditions which can be alleviated with treatment.
The choice is, deal with it now or the Taxpayer funds mental health treatment for a lifetime.
Sex change treatment is principally for lifetime as well: These people need to keep taking the pills which fooled their bodies into approximating biological characteristics of the opposite sex. Otherwise, they’ll eventually revert to type.
You’re reporting that as a clinician, or do you have experience?
Gosh, how interesting. 5 downvotes (so far) for stating facts.
Only one person (SweetBabyCheese) prepared to put a case.
Fascinating. DS contributors unwilling to deal with the truth they purport to seek.
The question here is Does chemical and chirugical mutilation of someone’s body actually help anyone?
The whole idea behind someone being transgender is the notion that the soul/ body dichotomy actually exists. Proponents of this theory vaguely refer to brain instead of soul here, but that’s just an excuse. They have no more knowledge of the actual workings of the brain at the chemical level than anyone else and just use it as great unknown. But body/ sould dichotomy is by definition a religious concept. Hence, we either accept that religious truths are more than just entirely subjective beliefs. Than, transgenderism is sort-of a new age religion with its own set of eternal truths. Or we reject that. Then, the mind is a function of the body which can principally live without it but not the other way round. Considering this, mind-in-a-wrong-body is a nonsense concept. A mind belongs to a particular body in exactly the same way hands belong to it. Does it make sense to encourage someone to believe something that’s objectively wrong? Instead of possibly helping him to accept reality as it is?
Sex change doesn’t really work. People have to take hormone pills for a lifetime and pills for hormones which are mostly alien to their bodies. Biological sex is coded into each and evey cell of it, including the brain cells. Is flooding male cells with female hormones (and vice-versa) really a good idea? Or at least one guaranteed to be harmless? Going beyond that, it’s possible to alter the external shape of a body by so-called cosmetical chirugy. This is an invasive, one-way and painful set of chirugical mutilations of the body which can go terribly wrong and then need more repair-chirugy later on not so rarely. Is is helpful to encourage someone to submit himself to such a medically wholly useless and possibly dangerous procedure?
What’s this brain gender, anyway. ie, what precisely defines man versus woman when it’s not biological sex? I’m not aware of any blueprint all men or all women would mentally conform to, they’re all different. Granted, there are social stereotypes men and women usually conform to to some degree. But there are also a lot of them who either don’t or only do so very selectively. Eg, I like reading books and have absolutely no desire to jump up and down and shout unarticulatedly because a certain kind of woman is usually amused by that. Am I supposed to assume that act like an idiot whose brain is routinely out of oxygen once it starts to flow into his penis is a necessary precondition of being male? That’s an imposition I absolutely reject. One could make a similar case for woman, judging from observations. As I’m not a woman, I can’t.
once it starts to flow into his penis
Should have been: Once the blood starts to flow into his penis instead.
What a lot of bollox.
Transgenders have been with mankind for as long as we have existed.
What people do with their bodies is entirely up to them. I don’t give a monkeys. If they have to take hormones for the rest of their life, good luck to them.
The discussion is about drug shortages and, as I have expressed elsewhere, the proportion of hormone seeking transgenders is inconsequentially tiny and the sensationalist 75% headline equates to 0.018% of the UK, up from 0.01%.
This is a headline worthy of red top tabloids.
I though we were sceptics on this site?
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say 0.02% of the population (Its nearly all men) and 3.2% of the population, (its definitely all women)
Easy to say HRT therapy is not life defining if you’re not one of the 5 million sufferers of oestrogen deprivation
Hmm, you hear about people who think they are actually dead or that one of their limbs is gangrenous. Is the solution to their mental problems to give them cyanide or to put a tourniquet at the base of the limb?
I have never heard of either.
The comparison is quite revolting and unnecessary.
It may be revolting in concept, but I assure you such problems do indeed occur. My point was a reductio ad absurdum of the current approach to many people who wish to change something in a bizarre manner.
You need to produce some credible evidence for that statement or its just bullshit. Nor do I mean isolated events.
And the article is about drug shortages, not your prejudice toward mental health and transgender issues.
I’m edging towards iane on this one, RHS.
Denying what is manifest (e.g. one’s biology) presents in many different forms. I personally don’t see any difference between the statements “I was born in the wrong body,” and “there are beetles crawling under my skin.”
This is not to say that I am not sympathetic of such afflictions, I know these feelings are real for some. But they need to be addressed in the right way.
If a person is truly happy as a biological man and to behave and live in all other respects as a woman, then there’s no problem. But all the talk of being born in the “wrong body” (and demanding all sorts of chemical and other treatments, aside from psychotherapy) is mental illness IMHO.
And yes, you’re right about the numbers. Couldn’t agree more. Nothingburger, really. Not a nothingburger for the very small number of people who have become dependent upon the drugs, sure.
I am surprised so many men want to become women, with all the disadvantages women still experience in society. And they have obvious physical signs they are not a natural woman, so they really will want to transition. Not sure what the situation is here in GB, but in the US many male to female trans end up working in the sex trade and many get killed every year by punters who are going mental when they find out they had “homo sex”. Just last week there was a court case like this in the USA.
And, they get away with not having periods. You will never be a woman if you have not experienced that.
Autogynephilia covers it.
A neighbour of mine 20 years or so ago had a female to male transition.
He was hard working, pleasant and seemed well adjusted mentally. Had I not been told by another neighbour, I might have guessed, but would never have been sure.
Interestingly, I had no problem referring to him as ‘he’, but the old dear’s who had known him as a female child were sometimes a but ‘tut-tutty’ about him.
There is no kindness in indulging mental illness.
“Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.” – William S. Burroughs
Precisely. We are not giving anorexics gastric bands are we so that there’s none left for the morbidly obese.
It’s just become fashionable to be depressed when in fact, you are just fed up, fèeling blue or browned off, ditto:Dyslexia
I am one of the world’s worst spellers but I am not dyslexic, I just can’t bloody spell!
William S. Burroughs
Born 1914.
Says a lot really.
For me the last line is the most important: they make you as crazy as they are.
You have to go to wherever they are.
I don’t care if you want to call yourself a man, a woman, a fish or a tractor, knock yourself out. It takes all sorts.
Just please don’t compel me to pretend it’s true, or modify society as if it were true, when it isn’t.
Agree wholeheartedly. And when it get’s down to it, transgenders aren’t the problem, it’s the virtue signalling politicians, businessmen and mid life crisis suburban housewives looking for a cause who screw it up for everyone.
Gay Pride marches. Most of the participants are white and heterosexual, many of them spectators with their 2.4 children in tow.
I’ve been thinking about this. Why can’t I get human growth hormone on the NHS if I identify as a bit younger? Costs thousands for the good stuff. If I import it I could go to jail. Doesn’t seem fair.
Because it won’t work past a certain age.
Tiny kid in my school was treated with it (I owned an entire school you understand), he sprouted like a bean and wound up 6′ 2″ or so before the rest of us. But he was going through the natural growth age which ends around 21 years old I believe.
Yeah, it works wonders. I’ve seen it with a lot of people I personally know and work with. Skin improves, eyesight and hearing and shreds body fat while easily building lean muscle with no side effects associated with anabolics. There are very few rich old celebrities that don’t use it these days.
But related to the trans debate, I’m pretty sure taking hormones won’t make them change sex either? Just affirms their delusions? I’m fine with that. Age is a social construct and I identify as a younger, more virile and trendier man.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/healthy-aging/in-depth/growth-hormone/art-20045735
Just one source, but you might want to pass it round your mates.
On the other hand, your neighbours think you’re a Dick.
Of course I was kidding. No need to call the hypothetical me a Dick (sic for the weird capitalisation). I was using it as an example of the absurdity of the trans debate.
Got that straight off of Mayo Clinic did you? How quaint. Sounds like an argument from authority. I’ve seen it work with my own eyes mate. I don’t need to go searching for somebody else’s opinion on the internet.
Isn’t most transition female to male these days?
Looking around us it certainly looks like it!
Here’s an item for tomorrow’s news round up.
ISRAEL—Archeologists excavating in the Jordan Rift Valley have uncovered what they believe are the rainbow logos used by companies to promote Pride Month in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Samples have been sent to the University of Cambridge for further analysis and, if verified, could prove to be one of the most obvious finds in biblical history.
“It’s kind of big news that we found the exact locations of Sodom and Gomorrah,” Dr. Henrietta Tombs journalist with National Geographic magazine. “But the quality of artifacts we’ve found also indicate a super perverted society of groomers, which was to be expected.”
According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, researchers have unearthed special edition LGBT wheels, casks of Pride Wine, and rainbow-colored pottery vessels that once contained fig cakes. In addition, a slew of nude statues were discovered in Sodom’s town square, which experts are calling “remarkably gay.”
At publishing time, archaeologists also believe they have found the remains of Zoar, another of the ancient “cities of the plain” of which Sodom and Gomorrah were a part. Unfortunately, the artifacts found are shockingly homophobic.
https://babylonbee.com/news/archaeologists-uncover-companies-rainbow-logos-from-sodom-and-gomorrah
In my view, on both a financial and an organisational perspective; the country can only afford for the NHS to deal with actual physical medical concerns and needs. Mental Health issues should be dealt with by separate organizations, on a charitable or a private basis, with injections of public funds as deemed appropriate.
In every way the NHS is a failed organisation and this sort of nonsense typifies its ineptitude. As a first step, the whole vexed and troubled issue of gender stuff needs to be removed from the remit of our basic physical health care provider.
At last. Someone talking sense.
Once they have achieved the Reset all these odd people will be disposed of. Well anyone that isn’t fully productive really. No more benefits and pensions to pay.
Tucker Carlson had a segment on this topic on his show the other night. His guest was a self-described “radical feminist” who is still outraged by this trans-gender push, especially with children or teens.
What stood out in the interview was a comment she made at the end of the interview, almost as an aside. She said she thought “Big Pharma” might be behind this. Even I had never thought about this, but then a light went on. Yes, all of these sex-change people have to take drugs (I guess for the rest of their lives) to become and then stay the gender they want to be … And who sells these people these drugs?
Anyway, she might have been on to something.
As an aside, I actually know a young lady who was once a guest on Tucker Carlson’s show. She had attended the January 6th rally that devolved into the infamous Capitol “insurrection.”
This lady was a captain in the U.S. Army at the time (although she attended the rally as a private citizen). This got her into all kinds of hot water with the military and she later had to resign from the army. She had also previously protested the silly lockdown mandates by taking her 3-year-old son to a local park, removed the yellow police tape that had been put up around the sliding boards, and let her small son play on the public playground.
She video-taped herself doing this and later posted her protest on the Internet, which led to her subsequent arrest (charges were later dropped … after she spent a grand or so on lawyer costs).
I talked to her on the phone for a story in our local newspaper (her dad was originally from my hometown and is a great friend of mine). While talking about the crazy world we live in, she mentioned how many military personnel were transitioning from one gender to the other. I had no idea this was so common. She also said that the government has to pay for these treatments. I don’t know if this is true or not, but I guess it could be. Chelsea Manning got her sex change operation while he (a male at the time) was in prison.
Anyway, my friend wasn’t too broken up about leaving the military.
According to this article there is some 0.018% of the UK seeking hormone therapy for transgenderism.
Big Pharma is far more ambitious than attempting to nurture an entire community until it’s big enough to make huge profits from.
women are redundant, they are being extinguished by men who hate them, Unless and until the males of the population step up and start to stand alongside females, they will find themselves alone, without a companion and without anything to continue the species. Wake up.
Well call me naive or intolerant but why on earth are doctors then enabling this ‘gender dysphoria’, if it’s an acknowledged mental illness diagnosis? Wouldn’t that be akin to people diagnosed with ‘Body Dysmorphia’ who, on going to see their doctor, are then referred to a plastic surgeon who would operate on them to make them look whichever way they prefer to look, and in the end they just look like complete freaks of nature? We’ve all seen classic examples of this in the media.
What these ‘gender dysphoria’ people need is similar to the body dysmorphic sufferers; intense therapy, usually of the CBT variety. What they don’t need is doctors encouraging their serious mental illness.
I know the NHS isn’t too great, but do you seriously imagine that amongst all the highly trained consultants they haven’t thought of CBT?
You blithely discuss the subject as though someone walks into a doctors surgery one day and announces he/she want’s to be a woman/man.
I know from personal contact I’d rather not have that people who feel locked in the wrong body usually go through years of anguish from a very young age, often resorting to self harm and attempted suicide because they don’t understand what’s ‘wrong’ with them.
They usually don’t know they would rather be the opposite sex and, if they suspect it, they suppress it which causes more mental problems.
The mere process of helping them understand, and face the fact they have sexual identity issues is the beginning of a mental health healing process.
Most don’t take it any further and find ways to deal with a new understanding of themselves. They might deal with it by adopting the persona of a woman, others might feel it necessary to take hormones, and a very few find the solution is surgery.
The point is, the mental health issues manifest themselves before they realise and face their mental anguish. Once they are addressed, they are usually alleviated, although probably never fully free as they, more than anyone, understand they had to make a choice few will ever have to make.
Crazy world- what else can we say?
No need for hormone treatment; such people are mentally ill.
Maybe it is promoted to contribute to the UN’s population reduction agenda…
Trans make up around 0.3% of the population and that’s the amount of our time we need to devote to them.
In what way is a wish to be another gender a matter of HEALTH?
Taxpayers should not be funding this kind of idiocy.