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Caroline Nokes, chair of the Women and Equalities select committee. (Leon Neal/Getty)
The system of NHS gender clinics that provide transgender healthcare in the UK should be abolished and hormones should be made available from GPs, MPs have been told.
“We think Gender Identity Clinics, as a concept, should be removed and that access to healthcare like hormone treatment can be made through primary care,” Dr Harriet Hutchinson, a community organiser with Action for Trans Health Durham, told a meeting of the Women and Equalities Select Committee on Wednesday (12 May).
She added: “People should have the right to make the changes to their body that they want to. Fundamentally, it is wrong that the psychiatric profession gets to decide whether or not we are who we say we are.”