Tory minister Sajid Javid echoes anti-trans lobbyists in attack on NHS services for trans kids

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Tory health minister Sajid Javid has attacked NHS gender services for trans youth as “bordering on ideological”.

On Tuesday (19 April), in the House of Commons, Conservative MP James Sunderland referenced the recent Cans Review interim report on healthcare for trans youth, and asked Javid whether he “shares my concern that the NHS insists on making a child’s expressed gender identity the start point for treatment?”

Javid responded: “It’s already clear to me from her interim findings and from the other evidence that I’ve seen that the NHS services in this area are too narrow, they are overly affirmative, and in fact they’re bordering on ideological.

“And that is why in this emerging area, of course, we need to be absolutely sensitive. But we need to make sure that there is holistic care that’s provided, there’s not a one-way street and that all medical interventions are based on the best clinical evidence.”

What’s the betting that @sajidjavid hasn’t spoken to a SINGLE trans child???