Youngsters 'at suicide risk' after sex change surgery

A FORMER governor of the country's only NHS gender identity service for children says "many" young people attempt suicide after regretting sex change surgery.

- Lucy Johnstor

Dr Marcus Evans, who worked at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, accused his former managers of following "ideological beliefs" on gender that became so "weaponised" and "politicised" that they lost clinical value.

He spoke out following a large-scale NHS review into the use of transitioning drugs for children which called into question the clinical practice of gender changing medicine.

A report by Dr Hilary Cass published last week found "no good evidence" to support the growing use of prescribed hormones to under-18s to halt puberty or transition to the opposite sex.