The RCGP position statement of 2024, which was updated following the final CASS report, states that the role of the majority of GPs, without expertise or extended roles, does not include the following:
1. Prescribing bridging prescriptions for those on Gender Clinic waiting lists
2. Carrying out blood tests on behalf of secondary care. Clinicians who request the test should do it themselves
3. Shared care with the private sector
It also states that the position of GPs who do not feel they have the expertise or resource to share care with either NHS specialist services or the private sector, is fully respected. Therefore GPs do not have to partake in prescribing or blood monitoring
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Update October 2024
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In response to the anomalies in the RCGP document, we reproduce a letter composed by a concerned GP member of ScotPAG in the hope that many GPs will read it and consider their position
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To read in full please download by clicking the pdf logo here:
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​Excerpt: "We are asking GPs to consider their position with regard to prescribing medications as per the GMC guidelines attached. We believe that ‘gender’ healthcare is not evidence-based and therefore demands long term follow-up with GICs as occurs, for example, with patients on DMARDs such as methotrexate who remain under rheumatology. Patients deserve this, and we believe that GPs should only be involved if they are operating under a banner of competence, which is currently lacking in this
hastily constructed new ‘speciality’ "
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What healthcare professionals say
Comments taken with permission from signatories to our petition to the Scottish Government
GP
The Scottish Government needs to urgently listen to the increasing evidence that the current approach of medicalising young people with gender dysphoria is extremely harmful. Why is the Sandyford Clinic in Glasgow continuing to act as if the Cass Review does not apply to them? We are causing irreversible damage to vulnerable young people, most of whom are going through a phase. They should be nurtured and counselled, not chemically castrated.
Health professional
Vulnerable children in Scotland are being damaged by the lies of gender ideology. Puberty blockers do irreversible damage, social transition is dangerous and they cannot change their sex. These children need their Government, health services and schools to protect and support them, not set them on a path of medicalization and surgery. Our children deserve better.
NHS Psychotherapist
The current contagion of delusion sweeping through institutions is very damaging to the wellbeing of children and young people. We must support them and ensure safeguarding for the young and vulnerable members of society. We must also challenge the naivety of a government that does not consult professionals before making vital decisions concerning mental health, but instead consults ideologues and political activists