Emails should include your name, DOB and NHS Number to assist your GIC admin in finding your record. If you have been referred but not been seen by a GIC, you can still contact the GIC you were referred to.

I do not give my permission for any aspect of my patient data to be submitted to, or collected for, the purpose of any research or non local audit without my express permission in writing being obtained in advance.

We also suggest you email your GIC the following to ensure your opt-out is clear and ask to have a note of this added to your care record.

This can be done via the following links, the first to stop GP records being shared and the second to stop secondary care records being shared: www.nhs.uk/using-the-nh...
digital.nhs.uk/services/nat...

In light of this, Trans Safety Network strongly suggests all transgender people in England consider opting out of their healthcare data being used for research.

As such, its unclear why they have been chosen to audit and choose research priorities for transgender adults. We believe it will be hard for patients to feel their best interests will be considered during audits and research recommendations due to the associated baggage and lack of expertise.

www.transgendermap.com/wp-content/u...

Beyond this, to our knowledge no members of this group have experience working with adult transgender people.

and a 2025 FOI asking for minutes + associated documents for the CYPGS Research Oversight Board revealed a communications strategy that suggested CYP clinicians should “possibly participate” in conferences hosted by SEGM + CAN-SG, whilst only mentioning WPATH and BAGIS conferences “for awareness”.

... and SPLC listed hate group SEGM (www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...), ...

Other members of the board are associated with anti-trans groups CAN-SG (www.transgendermap.com/issues/regre...), ...

We have previously raised concerns about its chair, Simon Wessley in this article.

Thanks for letting us know. Will look into this

Hi, sorry we don't have a copy of this, and it doesn't seem to be archived (besides the page in this thread that also blocked us). It might be something to try and FOI?

We have previously reported on Wessely's harms to the disabled community transsafety.network/posts/simon-...

We stand in solidarity with disabled people and psychiatric survivors. Trans liberation cannot be won without disabled people's liberation.

Fonagy was involved in the feasibility research for the highly damaging Serenity Integrated Mentoring scheme that caused immense harm to psychiatrised people by criminalising mental distress stopsim.co.uk

Ahem the guy who invented the term "evidence based medicine" just rebuked the most prominent anti-trans health lobby group in the world www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trans people would be better protected by the government protecting our right to use facilities of our lived gender than by police action against individual minor celebrities who have engaged in transphobic rhetoric.