New gender is ‘eunuch’ according to NHS website
EUNUCH should be recognised as a gender identity, according to documents published by the Scottish NHS.
The National Gender Identity Clinical Network for Scotland (NGICNS) shared claims from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) that ‘eunuch-identified people’ are the ‘least visible’ trans group and would benefit from ‘gender affirming medical care’.
The paper was deleted after media inquiries and the Scottish Government issued an apology, claiming it had been published by mistake.
It was uploaded to an official NHS website, as part of a consultation over proposed updates to its guidelines, which Scotland’s NHS says it currently follows.
The document defines a eunuch as ‘an individual assigned male at birth whose testicles have been surgically removed or rendered non-functional, and who identifies as a eunuch’.
Eunuchs ‘generally desire to have their testicles surgically removed or rendered non-functional’, the document states.
It adds eunuchs should be offered ‘surgical intervention’ if there is a risk that withholding treatment could lead to them attempting to carry out a medical procedure themselves.
The paper also provided a link to a website which includes graphic and sexually explicit fictional descriptions of child eunuchs.
When signing up to the website, the Eunuch Archive, users are asked to select their interests from a menu of options that includes ‘forced castration’.
Susan Smith, a director at the For Women Scotland campaign group, said: ‘We are disgusted that NHS Scotland thinks that it is appropriate to align with any organisation pushing “eunuch identity”, let alone host a paper about it on their website.
This is a barbaric practice which, for centuries, was used to demean and abuse young men and boys.’
David Parker, lead clinician at the NGICNS and a member of campaign group WPATH, this week called on MSPs to back proposed SNP reforms which would make it far easier for trans people to change their legal sex to male or female.
He told a Holyrood committee trans and nonbinary people were ‘the experts in their own experience’ and should be ‘recognised as their authentic selves’.
The NGICNS describes itself as a network including NHS staff who want to improve gender services.
A Scottish Government spokesman said: ‘The documents have been removed and we apologise to anyone affected.’
Susan Buchanan, director of the NHS National Specialist Services and Screening Division, said: ‘Last night, NHS National Services Scotland became aware of a third-party document hosted on the National Gender Identity Care Network for Scotland (NGICNS) website.
‘The document has since been removed and the website taken down pending an investigation.
‘NHS Scotland did not author the document, contribute to it or comment on it. The document’s content does not reflect current policy or guidance on standards of care for NHS Scotland.’
‘A barbaric practice’