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Letter to Eluned Morgan, Minister for Health and Social Services

Dear Minister

We write to draw your attention to the group litigation being prepared by families of children and young people treated at the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman Trust.

This follows the failings highlighted in the interim Cass report and the subsequent decision to close GIDS.

Gender distressed children and young people from Wales have been referred to GIDS. They will have been subject to these same failings.

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Wales’ LGBTQ+ Action Plan takes no account of autism


The Welsh Government’s (WG) LGBTQ+ Action Plan seeks to replace the biological reality of sex, with the nebulous term ‘gender’. You can find out more about this here, but in this article I explore the implications of the Action Plan for autistic people.

We’re still learning about autism but there is scientific consensus that it is a genetic-based neurological variant. Continue reading “Wales’ LGBTQ+ Action Plan takes no account of autism”