The National Gender Service fear they will have to close applications unless they receive more resources from the Government “We have been asking for the last three years now for additional resources.'
People seeking help from the National Gender Service will end up “harmed” by longer wait times, the NGS clinical lead has warned.
“And so, we will maybe have to come to a decision to close the waiting list to that point, purely as a matter of safety but also as a matter of providing a service for the people who are already attending.” “It'll get to a crunch point where if the pressure gets too high, wait times get too long and there is no sign that the agency will grant our request for additional resources then the service may come apart,” he said.In the face of longer waiting lists, activists Trans Harm Reduction and Dublin Trans Pride have accused the NGS of advising GPs against providing blood tests and prescribing hormone therapy.
He said the NGS does not try to decide if people are transgender or not, but rather assessing the “benefits and risks” of intervention.“It’s like any medical or surgical intervention, we do this in obesity as well,” he said. “We have a multidisciplinary assessment at the start of that pathway, including a mandatory psychological assessment.”
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