World News

2405 readers

1244 users here now

Rules:
Be a decent person.
No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, zionism/nazism, and so on.

Other Great Communities:

Rules

Be excellent to each other

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Deceptichum@quokk.au

Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com

147

Transgender patients told surgery was cancelled while already in hospital (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 day ago by TRAHR@quokk.au to c/world@quokk.au

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Last week NHS officials announced all surgery commissioned by the Welsh Gender Service was being "paused" over concerns about the number of referrals, and whether they were all appropriate.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

But have you considered how many clicks we get when we run these stories? Checkmate, trans folk

[–] valek879@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

Controversy sells it seems and our existence is frighteningly controversial. I never expected to wear a pink triangle when we learned about the Holocaust. I thought that shit was behind us as a species. How naive my younger self was.