This is only good news if the replacement services make changes so that they no longer practice affirmation-only, keep strict patient records, maintain follow-up and only provide treatment in accordance with the evidence-base. There also needs to be funding for neutral point-of-view and publicly available research both into outcomes of treatment and looking at why there is a surge in teenage girls claiming to be boys (and the researchers must be free to publish politically difficult findings and not allowed to bury results they find inconvenient)

If they don’t do these things then all that will happen is that they will speed up the autist to trans pipeline, and, for the most part, young women will be hurt.

The fact that Stonewall is happy with this makes me very suspicious.

We also need some legislation that makes your NHS number unchangeable. One of the reasons why there’s a lack of follow-up data, in a system where follow-up for every other medical condition is simple, is that they allowed people to change their NHS number when they altered their gender on official records, making it possible to disappear from follow-up.