It is a very strange situation. People with body dysmorphia aren’t offered amputations and people with eating disorders aren’t offered bariatric surgery, so why are people with gender dysphoria being offered mutilating surgeries and being told that that is the best course of treatment?

The push to ban “conversion therapies” in the UK is nothing more than an effort to make the medical/surgical affirmation route the only therapeutic option for people with GD. It is simply a cynical piece of legislation that addresses a non-issue, gay conversion therapy just isn’t happening in the 21st century UK and the fact that there is no ring fencing for ethical psychological therapies for people with GD makes me suspect that outlawing anything but affirmation is the whole point.

That being said, the aesthetic cosmetic surgery and dentistry industries also need a massive investigation as well, some of the horror stories that come out about stuff that is happening in Eastern European, Turkish, SE Asian and S American surgical and dental clinics are the stuff of nightmares.