Calls for NHS gender op inquiry

Anguish of young man who had his sex organs removed on NHS then regretted it the same day

Yesterday’s Mail

AN URGENT inquiry into NHS gender-changing operations on young people, some still teenagers, was demanded by campaigners last night.

It came as a historic legal action against the health service was launched by a man in his thirties who says the drastic surgery was the ‘biggest mistake’ of his life.

He says the removal of his male sex organs has left him incontinent, infertile and feeling like a ‘sexual eunuch’.

The man, who has now de-transitioned and is known by the name of TullipR, is claiming compensation in a negligence case against several medics involved in his treatment – first at an NHS adult gender identity clinic and then in hospital. Neither has been named. His legal battle – a first ever by a trans patient against the NHS – is expected to open the floodgates to negligence claims by trans youth distressed with the outcomes of what the health service calls ‘sex transformation’ surgery.

Last night, Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend, a group advising parents of trans children and young people, said: ‘This young man’s compensation battle shines a light on the NHS adult gender identity clinics where older teens and young people are getting treatment, and referral for surgery, with little exploration into underlying mental or social issues pushing them towards wanting to change gender.

‘We want an independent inquiry into the work of the clinics where young patients are allowed, by law, to make their own decisions on lifealtering medical procedures that they may later regret.’