The United Kingdom's National Health Service is 'captured' by the 'critical social justice' movement. What does this mean? Why should you be concerned? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ybkpmdGNNk Mental health nurse sues Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust for religious and racial discrimination When we talk of an institution being captured, we mean that the decisions made to determine policy … Continue reading The NHS is Captured
Response to Proposed NHS Interim Service Specification
The NHS published its proposed Interim Service Specification for the treatment of 'gender dysphoria' on 20th October 2022 The NHS is consulting on this Interim Service Specification for what they are calling Specialist service for children and young people with gender dysphoria (phase 1 providers) The consultation runs from 20th October 2022 to 4th December … Continue reading Response to Proposed NHS Interim Service Specification
Closing the Gender Identity Development Service
A TIMELINE OF RELEVANT EVENTS AT THE TAVISTOCK CENTRE 2005: Sue Evans, a nurse at Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), warned that youngsters were being assessed too quickly and their treatment was influenced by transgender rights groups. 2009: GIDS became a national service responsible for treating all children in … Continue reading Closing the Gender Identity Development Service
Parents call for an end to the promotion of transgenderism in schools.
UK parents belonging to Our Duty, a peer support group for families with a child that identifies as transgender, have written to the Secretary of State for Education, James Cleverly, and the two candidates to be UK’s next Prime Minister, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, requesting an urgent review into children adopting a transgender identity … Continue reading Parents call for an end to the promotion of transgenderism in schools.
Response to Announcement of GIDs Closure
The NHS has announced that the Gender Identity Development Service, UK's only gender clinic for children is to be closed. Our Duty has been critical of this service provided by The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation trust since our foundation in 2018. Announcement https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/gender-dysphoria-clinical-programme/implementing-advice-from-the-cass-review/ Our Duty Statement Parents of children who believe themselves to be … Continue reading Response to Announcement of GIDs Closure
Responding to the Interim Report of The Cass Review
This is a response the Interim Report published by The Cass Review. First up, Our Duty has been calling for an immediate moratorium on the provision of Opposite Sex Imitation Medicine pending the final report from The Cass Review. Nothing in the Interim Report diminishes the rationale for such a moratorium. Indeed, if anything, our … Continue reading Responding to the Interim Report of The Cass Review
The Cass Review – Interim Report
On 10th March 2022 The Cass Review published an Interim Report. https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-report/ The Cass Review Interim Report The Interim Report was covered by two articles in the British Medical Journal including one by Dr Hilary Cass. https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o589 Review of gender identity services for children and young people, Dr Hilary Cass https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o629 Our Duty will, in … Continue reading The Cass Review – Interim Report
Conversion Therapy Petition
On Monday 8th March a 'Westminster Hall Debate' was had in the United Kingdom parliament in response to a petition calling for a ban on LGBT Conversion Therapy. The full debate in Parliament is available on Parliament TV The petition calls for the Government to make running conversion therapy for LGBT people a criminal offence. This … Continue reading Conversion Therapy Petition
Call to Stop Opposite Sex Imitation on NHS
Our Duty calls on the government to end the scandal of opposite sex imitation medicine
Policy for the United Kingdom
There is no evidence of any benefit to sufferers of post-pubertal sex dysphoria from medical intervention. Mental health outcomes are not improved by gender transition. Our Duty takes the view that medical treatment to imitate the opposite sex is not just unnecessary, it is harmful. There is no doubt that young people who come to … Continue reading Policy for the United Kingdom