Family doctors in Britain will be paid for every instance in which they provide hormone altering drugs to transgender patients.
Family doctors in Britain will be paid by the government when they provide hormone-altering drugs to transgender patients.
The trial scheme, which was launched on Friday, will see General Practitioners in Sussex receive £178 per year in taxpayer cash for every person they sign up to take “cross-sex hormone therapy” and an additional £91 a year for annual health checks for transgender, non-binary, and intersex patients,According to the British newspaper of record, concerns have been raised surrounding the issuing of powerful drugs without accompanying mental health therapy.
A transgender advocate, Debbie Hayton, who underwent a medical “transition” in 2012, said that no matter the intention, the scheme will see more people placed on hormone-altering substances, describing the system as “desperate measures for desperate times”. “When I transitioned I had an hour with a therapist every week for months,” Hayton said. “That’s what I needed to understand myself. An annual review is a pale shadow of that.”reportedly said that the trial scheme in Sussex is “not designed to promote the initiation of hormonal treatment in general practice”, however, it also said that the distribution and the decision to begin hormone therapy will be “at the discretion of the individual GP”.
In order to be qualified for the scheme, doctors will merely be required to take a two and a half hour online training session. The programme is set to run in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, and West Sussex for the next three years.
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