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Belittling psychiatric assessments are creating a storm of depression and suicide among trans patients
By Christopher Inglefield, plastic surgeon and medical director at the London Transgender Clinic. Around forty per cent of transgender people have attempted to take their own lives at some point in time. That’s a shocking, harrowing statistic, supplied by the National …
Continue ReadingWhy I Support the Government Stance on Textured Breast Implants
In April this year, amid a growing global clamour, the UK Government’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced that it has no plans to ban ‘macrotextured’ breast implants, or breast implants with polyurethane-coated surfaces. And in spite of …
Continue ReadingWhy We Dismiss ‘Breast Implant Illness’ At Our Peril
Breast Implant Illness, or BII, is so far little known in the UK but has exploded in the US in recent months. Large numbers of women are becoming concerned that their breast implants are making them unwell. And they’re …
Continue ReadingWhy we can’t define human gender at birth
As a surgeon who’s treated many patients transitioning from one gender to another, I know there are myriad complex reasons behind that decision, reasons which are not yet fully understood by science. But what we do know is that those in the trans community often suffer greatly just to get to …
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