NHS should cure illness, not fund ‘babies for men’

Sink Hinkley with tide power

It is unbelievable that women having sex changes on the NHS are being given free fertility treatment so they can have babies after they become men, as you reported last week. Yet my husband, a type 1 diabetic for 46 years, has just bought his own 24-hour glucose monitor with sensors which he will have to replace and pay for at £50 per fortnight.

Also, a court has just found that the HIV prevention treatment PrEP can be funded by the NHS. But surely Aids can be prevented by the use of condoms?

The NHS has to get its priorities right. It should be there for health problems not to fund lifestyle choices. There is something very seriously wrong here. Stasha Martin, East Preston,

West Sussex Along with all my circle of friends and acquaintances (men and women) I was horrified and angry when I read last Sunday’s headline regarding the enormous waste of NHS money in allowing surgeons to play God by helping women who have become men to have babies.

If people are unhappy with their gender they should pay their own costs. I am sick of hearing that hard-earned taxes are being used for this sort of thing when there is little enough money for treating genuine illness.

Women who want to be men are Instead of building a nuclear power station at Hinkley Point we should use the second-highest tidal range in the world on the River Severn. Just one barrage could produce eight per cent of the UK’s electricity.

G Walker, Stroud, Gloucestershire Why doesn’t the Prime Minister scrap the HS2 rail project so we not ill. Making some physical changes has not made them a man – as evidenced by their mindset remaining feminine and wanting to have babies. Our everyone-is-entitled-to-everything society has completely lost its moral compass. What dreadful idea will be next?

D. N. Harris, Fareham, Hampshire There has been huge uproar over the NHS’s decision to fund fertility treatment so that men born as females might have babies. Most of the reactions I have seen have been negative, however I think it is important we remember that this issue is completely new and there is no set way of approaching it.

Gender dysphoria is a real condition with reported cases on the rise. We should attempt to understand rather than shun and ostracise those affected – they are can build Hinkley Point ourselves, rather than using foreign finance? Peter Moore, Basingstoke, Hampshire No one can say that Mrs May’s regime lacks decisiveness. On Hinkley Point they have swiftly decided not to make a decision.

Francis T O’Reilly, London part of the same society as all of us and just as entitled to the NHS as anyone. William Collins, London My daughter would like a child, but IVF is denied to her on the NHS because her husband has two grown-up sons from a previous marriage. Where is the justice in denying her a child but helping the chance of pregnancy for women who have become men?

Michael Wilson, York Your story about sex-change men being given free NHS fertility treatment is an affront to all those dying on waiting lists, as they try to hang on for major surgery, and the millions of the elderly waiting years for hip replacements or cataract operations.

Roy Daniels, Luton, Bedfordshire