More than 1,000 women a year have their healthy breasts removed on the NHS in transgender surgery funded by the taxpayer. The Telegraph has the story.
Data obtained by the Telegraph show for the first time the number of referrals for taxpayer-funded ‘masculinising’ mastectomies from specialised gender clinics.
As many as 80% of people using those services are females between the ages of 17 and 25.
The 1,000-plus referrals could be the tip of the iceberg, because many people have transgender surgery privately to bypass long NHS waiting lists.
A search on the GoFundMe platform brings up hundreds of results for “top surgery UK”, also known as chest reconstruction or chest wall surgery.
The NHS faces calls to halt the surgeries. Experts warn there is no evidence that removing healthy breasts is beneficial for those with gender dysphoria – but there is evidence of harm.
A number of detransitioners have spoken publicly about their regret at rushing to have irreversible surgery, and the pain caused.
Zhenya Abbruzzese, co-founder and Senior Adviser at the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), said: “We are concerned that young people are being told that these procedures will relieve their distress when the research cannot find the benefits, but the harms of losing a functioning body part are certain.
“Doctors need an urgent memo about the actual state of the evidence. But this is a question primarily for health authorities to decide – should the treatment be available given the risk-benefit ratio and the evident risk of harm?“
The data, obtained using freedom of information laws, show that the NHS’s Gender Dysphoria National Referral Support Services (GDNRSS) referred 3,490 women for “masculinising chest surgery” between 2021 and 2023.
The number has risen slightly each year, from 1,089 in 2021 to 1,164 in 2022 and 1,237 in 2023.
Of the 10 NHS hospitals carrying out the operations, North Manchester Hospital had the highest number of referrals. It was followed by Parkside Hospital in London and Castle Hill Hospital in Hull.
GNDRSS deals with all referrals for specialised gender surgery for people over the age of 17.
Over three years, it also sent more than 780 women for “masculinising genital gender reassignment surgery”, also known as “bottom surgery”.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: A transgender NHS doctor who got changed in front of women colleagues has claimed to be a “biological female”. Dr Beth Upton, who is male but identifies as a woman, stated in evidence to an employment tribunal “I’m biologically female” and said that sex had “no defined or agreed meaning in science”.
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Because we have so much extra money and time on the NHS hands, no waiting lists for cancer treatments etc, its obviously so much more important to bend to the whim of a mentally ill person. Will the tax payer also I wonder pay the damages when these women decide in a few years that they were misled by the NHS and want their bodies back as they were? only now they are sterile, and so we the tax payer must fork out once again.
We need a DOGE here, and pretty damn quick.
Just seen a piece on GB News of a UK DOGE account on X that highlights how this country wastes a ‘black hole’ of money. You will either be enraged or just weep in despair at the scum running this country.
“Top surgery” – despicable attempt to disguise mutilation of healthy tissue. That’s not surgery.
I cannot fathom how any “medical professional” involved in this process can bring themselves to do this, especially the “surgeons” – and how they feel this is not in conflict with their oath to do no harm. It’s like giving the patient heroin to inject if they ask for it (ah hold on…) or doctors helping people to kill themselves (ah hold on…).
It is 100% unethical, and it also demonstrates that doctors and other healthcare practitioners are not adhering to what is ‘best practice’ and ‘evidence-based medicine’ because the evidence shows that what these people need is psychological input, not healthy body parts chopped off or messed about with so that they become disfigured and sterilized. We know that the vast majority outgrow this feeling of being in the wrong body because it’s a transient phase for many. But we saw during the scamdemic and death jab roll out what doctors thought of medical ethics so none of this surprises me at all. They’re all disgusting, they really are. Should be struck off;
”I want my doctors to be held to account. I lost my body parts, my health, and my chance at a normal and pain-free future to the ideology that they made money off of. My children’s mother was changed forever, and I didn’t even understand what was being done to me while it was happening. It isn’t right, it isn’t fair, and the worst part is the vast number of other young people this has happened to. We all deserve for our doctors to be held accountable.”
https://x.com/detransaqua/status/1887570083255586827
”Some sources suggested that the reluctance to push ahead with broader [gender change] reform was down to a desire to protect relations with the United States.’ So Trump succeeded where a multitude of British women, including lifelong leftists, failed.
However, in spite of the puberty blockers ban, ‘separate moves for a transgender-inclusive ban on “conversion therapy” are understood to be going ahead.’ This means therapists will be banned from fully exploring why a child wants to transition.
We know that children who are autistic, same-sex attracted and those who’ve experienced sexual abuse are overrepresented at gender clinics. We also know, from multiple studies, that the vast majority of children grow out of gender dysphoria if allowed to go through puberty.
Therapists and gay activists have begged Labour to realise that the affirmation-only model could cause serious, irreparable harm to minors, to no effect. I suppose we have to hope Trump says it soon. Then, maybe, they’ll listen.” J.K Rowling
Top comment;
”Genderism is a pernicious secular religion, which at heart Labour can’t bring themselves to renounce.
It works as communism and fascism do, so is VERY tenacious.
Trump is the only political leader to grasp that it must be outright banned.
Saving women and children from its harms.”
https://x.com/AndyWest_tweets/status/1888742324336783545
We know that children who are autistic, same-sex attracted and those who’ve experienced sexual abuse are overrepresented at gender clinics.
We know that the trans-mafia targets vulnerable children. This needs to be expressed clearly as such.If you grow up as an autist, you’ll soon learn, usually in quite abusive ways, that there’s something off with the world. Everybody else is cruising through live at ease. But for you, it’s hellishly difficult because whatever you’re trying, you’re always going to get it wrong in ways you really don’t understand. And then suddenly, some adult shows up who feigns understanding and support¹ and slowly tries to convince you that all your problems really stem from not having your body irrecoverably ruined before it ever had a chance to become sexually mature. This is really an unspeakable evil because these adults know exactly what they’re really doing and why they’re more successful when selecting the right kind of victim.
¹ Around the age of 15 or 16, I encountered a horse I had to care for during a teenager’s holiday. That was the first time ever since kindergarten that some living creature repayed my attempts to be friendly and helpful in kind.
And doubtless they will require years of therapy after this madness blows over… utterly horrific.
And there will be calls for a public enquiry, to state the obvious at more expense.
The advantage of going privately is anonymity. I wonder if children of some Sirs and Ladies chose the private option. The things one hears at St Stephen’s Tavern from the locals and muzzled journos after a drink!
This is awful I had no idea about this. The idea that a physician would do such a thing. What insane creed could possess them or was it pure cupidity either way it is terrible. Words like ‘holy’, whole, health, hale – they all come from the same stem which shows us that the whole unblemished state is what is aimed for, always the completion never the diminution and they would undertake procedures like these? You can never do that in the name of mental distress it just means that you are feeding the beast.
Doctor Mengele would be SO Proud , the c- nts ( soz but they are ) doing this should be jailed for life at least !!!….
The defined meaning of sex is based on the gamete produced by the body which is either egg-producing/ female or sperm-producing/ male. That that’s not something gender-bendering transscientists agree with doesn’t matter. Religious types agree or disagree with all kinds of weird stuff. That’s their prerogative. And nobody else’s concern.
Looking at this from apurely financial point of view, it is us, the tax-payers that are funding this madness.
If the girl involved had to pay for this(like in most countries) they would probably change their mind.
The Telegraph article majors on lack of evidence to show that these drastic, irreversible operations solve these troubled women’s problems. The NHS as usual waffles around the wrong problem:
But Bayswater Support Group get closer to the heart of the matter:
No need for a wide ranging review. There it is in one sentence.
The NHS is killing patients in corridors and cannot run a decent maternity service. Yet it blows our money on transition surgery.
It seems to have the delusion that it can do everything. The NHS can’t even get the basics right.
A statistic worthy of being published would be the average amount of days beyond some person’s 18th birthday the operation took place. Another would be average age at the time of gender dysphoria diagnosis. Further, average age when so-called social transition started and lastly, the percentage of people whose 18th birthday occurred while they were already in hospital and booked in for the operation. I absolutely wouldn’t be surprised if some of them had turned eighteen while already on the operating table and people with surgical instruments waiting for the starter’s pistol (if that’s technically possible which it probably isn’t).
I don’t remember having my breast surgically removed during puberty and hence, masculinising chest surgery is a misnomer: Men won’t have undergone it.
Let’s name and shame there surgeons performing these operations please. Surely they have better things to do?
An interesting question would be: Do they also seek to or fantasize about mutilating young women in their spare time?