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High Court Finds Long Waiting Times for Trans Healthcare are Lawful

R. (on the application of AA (A Child)) v National Health Service Commissioning Board (NHS England) [2023] EWHC 43 (Admin) Background The demand for young people receiving gender identity development services (‘GIDS’) and for adults receiving gender identity disorder services (also, helpfully, ‘GIDS’) has increased substantially from 2012 to 2017,…
July 18, 2023Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 13, Personal injuryTags:
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Parental Consent and Puberty Blockers: the fall out from Bell

AB v CD & Ors [2021] EWHC 741 (Fam) In the last issue of QMLR this author considered the High Court’s decision in Bell v Tavistock, which concerned whether children were capable of consenting to puberty blockers (“PBs”) as treatment for gender dysphoria. A three-judge panel in the Divisional Court…
July 5, 2021Posted inIssue 9, PublicTags: ,
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Children, Informed Consent and Puberty Blockers

Bell & Anor v The Tavistock And Portman NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 3274 (Admin) Introduction This was a claim for judicial review of the practice of the Defendant’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) and two other Trusts joined as Interveners (University College London and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trusts)…
April 1, 2021Posted inIssue 8, PublicTags: ,
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Transgender Fathers and Birth Certificates

R (McConnell and YY) v Registrar General [2020] EWCA Civ 559  This article was originally published in Issue 5 (May 2020). The Court of Appeal has revisited the tension between the wish of a transgender person to have their legal gender recognised on their child’s birth certificate and the right of…
May 1, 2020Posted inIssue 5, PublicTags: ,
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Gender Reassignment for Prisoners

R (ota KK) Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust [2019] EWHC 3565 (Admin)  This article originally appeared in Issue 4 (March 2020). This judicial review sought to challenge the decision by an NHS Trust to refuse to recommend a transgender prisoner for NHS-funded gender reassignment surgery by reference to an…
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What is a ‘Mother’ in Law?

TT, R (on the application of) v The Registrar General for England and Wales [2019] EWHC 2384 (Fam)  This article originally appeared in Issue 3 (November 2019). A person who undergoes the physical and biological process of carrying a pregnancy and giving birth, irrespective of gender? This was the ruling…
November 1, 2019Posted inIssue 3, PublicTags: ,