The NHS has been slammed for promoting a ‘gender construction kit’ that offers trans patients advice on how to use wigs and make-up to look like women. The Mailhas more.
It also offers tips on using nail varnish, eyelash extensions, perfume and the correct underwear to transition to their desired gender.
The advice, which has been published on a website, lists different gender pronouns would-be transitioners could choose from, including the options “Zie”, “Fae” and “Spivak”.
The “kit” also gives patients advice on the use of hormones to reduce body hair, suppress libido and reduce fertility.
The advice, which has been shared by NHS trusts across the country, also has information on surgeries to reduce the size of the Adam’s apple, remove or enlarge breasts as well as the removal of genitalia and replacement with imitations.
NHS trusts such as Leeds and York, Sussex, Devon and Cumbria Northumberland and Tyne and Wear, have all included the “gender construction kit” on their websites. …
The kit seems to be encouraging readers, advising them to “listen to your discomfort” adding: “Are there things about your body that make you uncomfortable? Do you feel like something is wrong when you do something in particular?
“Perhaps you feel jealous that other people get to use clothes, names, or words that you can’t or unable to shake the feeling that you aren’t the way other people see you?”
In the introduction to the kit, it states that these things can be changed, and suggests that patients “try different underwear”. …
It adds that it is best to begin trying to change gender markers before being entirely certain about the process, stating: “It can be really tempting to wait until you feel more certain about things, but that uncertainty probably won’t go away just from waiting.
“The best way to find out what’s right for you is to try things out.” …
But it is not clear who exactly wrote the guidance, which is now being spread around the taxpayer-funded health service. …
Helen Joyce, an author and co-founder of Sex Matters, told the Telegraph: “This isn’t healthcare, and it’s dangerous. NHS trusts should immediately remove any link to the kit and investigate why it was possible that they endorsed something so harmful and misguided.”
She added distress about your sex has become far more common in the past decade due in large part because schools, universities and healthcare professionals have spread that discomfort with your body may be down to ‘gender identity’.
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