As the Minister for Healths appointee to the National Transgender Healthcare Steering committee, I am still under a confidentiality clause as to what exactly the committee discussed/recommended.
We concluded last March. Recommendations have been made & report hasn’t been read yet
We expected this report to be read and recommendations to have been acted upon over 6 months ago.
As a result of inaction on the part of the Dpt of Health, which allowed undesirable consultants to take advantage of COVID 19 distractions, we have now lost the only service
to trans children & young people.
COVID 19 is a priority. However, hard work, money & progress has been disbanded in other areas of healthcare that are just as important.
@DonnellyStephen I am now YOUR Ministerial appointee, please communicate.
@SimonHarrisTD please push this!
Without @SimonHarrisTD being able to keep in the loop, everything has been put to the whey side.
It’s not good enough.
We started something great, so let’s finish it!
In the meantime, in just one year, the National Gender Service waiting list has gone from 15months to 3+ years.
Trans healthcare for children & adolescents is now extinct.
It seems that all the time/work/effort that the trans healthcare steering committee put in, was a waste!?
Where is the report? Why hasn’t it been read? Why hasn’t it been acted upon? (As promised and as planned) @SimonHarrisTD @DonnellyStephen @HSELive
Had to hold our tongues for far too long. Not anymore.
When government breaks a deal, I will too.
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