Trans Safety Network

James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships help decide what health questions most need research.

- Support networks, including family, friends, carers, or partners

National consultation on transition-related healthcare - submit your views today at wp.lancs.ac.uk/transadultspsp

and prioritise the most important questions for non-surgical transition-related healthcare research. 
Seeking input from:
- Adults (18+) who have accessed, are accessing, or are seeking access to transition-related care
- Healthcare professionals

The Trans, Non-Binary & Gender-Diverse Adults Priority Setting Partnership - delivered by @LancasterUni and funded by @GenderedIntelligence - is working with communities and healthcare professionals to identify

James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships help decide what health questions most need research.

Trans Safety Network encourage our supporters to engage with the James Lind Alliance consultation to set research funding priorities.

She outlines how this approach, as recommended by the Sullivan report, is a poor method for capturing data about gender minorities and broader society.

The European Social Survey: A Case Study In Gender Assignation In this article, I will show that it is incorrect to assume that “observation” can be used to find out a person’s gender or sex.

Kim Hipwell analyses how recent parallel usage of self-reported gender with their usual 'observational coding 'in the European Social Survey highlights the unreliability of observational coding.

transsafety.network/posts/europe...

Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

Defining the Boundaries: Local NHS policies put trans patient safety at risk Trans patients in certain regions are having their repeat prescriptions withdrawn and being left at risk of serious medical harm, following slipshod new policies rolled out by local NHS England author...

@ilyarabbit.bsky.social and Chloe F outline how the policies of NHS integrated Care Boards and inadequate equality impact assessments are leaving trans patients at risk of serious medical harm.
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Emails should include your name, DOB and NHS Number to assist your GIC admin in finding your record. If you have been referred but not been seen by a GIC, you can still contact the GIC you were referred to.

I do not give my permission for any aspect of my patient data to be submitted to, or collected for, the purpose of any research or non local audit without my express permission in writing being obtained in advance.

We also suggest you email your GIC the following to ensure your opt-out is clear and ask to have a note of this added to your care record.

Opt out of sharing your health records Find out how to opt out of sharing your health records for research and planning.

This can be done via the following links, the first to stop GP records being shared and the second to stop secondary care records being shared: www.nhs.uk/using-the-nh...
digital.nhs.uk/services/nat...

In light of this, Trans Safety Network strongly suggests all transgender people in England consider opting out of their healthcare data being used for research.

As such, its unclear why they have been chosen to audit and choose research priorities for transgender adults. We believe it will be hard for patients to feel their best interests will be considered during audits and research recommendations due to the associated baggage and lack of expertise.

www.transgendermap.com/wp-content/u...

Beyond this, to our knowledge no members of this group have experience working with adult transgender people.

CYP Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board agendas, papers and minutes - a Freedom of Information request to NHS England This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please could you provide, subject to any necessary redactions to omit personal or confidential information which is not pe...

and a 2025 FOI asking for minutes + associated documents for the CYPGS Research Oversight Board revealed a communications strategy that suggested CYP clinicians should “possibly participate” in conferences hosted by SEGM + CAN-SG, whilst only mentioning WPATH and BAGIS conferences “for awareness”.

Anti-LGBTQ Anti-LGBTQ+ ideology opposes rights, spreads harmful pseudoscience, and uses demonizing rhetoric to portray LGBTQ+ people as threats to society.

... and SPLC listed hate group SEGM (www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...), ...

Other members of the board are associated with anti-trans groups CAN-SG (www.transgendermap.com/issues/regre...), ...

Simon Wessely’s history of discrediting sick and disabled people could be bad news for trans health research priorities. Psychiatrist Simon Wessely has been appointed to chair the National Children and Young People’s Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board. TSN outline our concerns about this appointment.

We have previously raised concerns about its chair, Simon Wessley in this article.

Trans Safety Network are concerned to see that NHS England have committed to expanding the role of the National Research Oversight Board for Children and Young People’s Gender Services to cover audit and research for adult patients too.

Support a trans woman facing serious legal charges after EHRC protest arrest Call for financial support for a trans woman wrongfully charged with assaulting a police officer at a protest.

Legal fee fundraiser for trans woman facing serious charges over arrest at a Trans Kids Deserve Better demo. Please support by sharing and donating if you can afford to.

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From Lacking to Malicious - An investigation into NHS England's ICB's guidance Since the Cass Review’s was published in April 2024, trans healthcare on the NHS has become significantly more precarious and unpredictable. While the dire situation for children has happened in the o...

@sasha98.bsky.social provides analysis of just how precarious and inconsistent access to trans healthcare on the NHS has become. They highlight how official guidance has favoured giving hostile and nervous clinicians excuses, rather than empower or expect them to provide good care standards.

Wes Streeting continues to ignore safeguarding concerns about parents group linked to abusive practices Trans Safety Network has seen evidence Wes Streeting and the DHSC solicited feedback on a “puberty blocker risk form” from Bayswater Support Group and other anti-trans groups in September 2025, 6 mont...

Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views

Thanks for letting us know. Will look into this

'Dangerous Recommendations': Trans Safety Network write to Healthwatch Trans Safety Network was shocked by the dangerous recommendations of Healthwatch's recent trans healthcare report. We find it hard to believe that any trans organisations or persons were involved sign...

Trans Safety Network have written to Healthwatch regarding their concerning recommendations in their trans health report. We fear if this report is not withdrawn, it will lead to significant deterioration in trans people's ability to access NHS care. transsafety.network/posts/danger...

Hi, sorry we don't have a copy of this, and it doesn't seem to be archived (besides the page in this thread that also blocked us). It might be something to try and FOI?

We have previously reported on Wessely's harms to the disabled community transsafety.network/posts/simon-...

We stand in solidarity with disabled people and psychiatric survivors. Trans liberation cannot be won without disabled people's liberation.

STOPSIM Mental Health Is Not A Crime

Fonagy was involved in the feasibility research for the highly damaging Serenity Integrated Mentoring scheme that caused immense harm to psychiatrised people by criminalising mental distress stopsim.co.uk