Exclusive: A growing wave of GPs are withdrawing care from trans patients, leaving many ‘terrified’

A recent wave of NHS General Practitioners closing their doors to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) prescriptions for trans patients “comes from fear,” a clinical expert has said.

Over the past year, GPs across the UK have announced they are no longer prescribing the life-saving medical treatment for hundreds of trans patients due to a claimed “lack of expertise” and “lack of support.”

Far Lane Medical Centre – a GP in Sheffield – became the most recent to withdraw its care after writing to patients saying the work is “outside of our expertise.”

Patients of other practices that have ceased care, including a set of GPs in the East Midlands, have said they are “terrified” of the implications and have considered self-medicating if they can’t feasibly access

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