Transgender People: Provision of Healthcare
Debate between Karl Turner and Emily Darlington(6 days, 17 hours ago)
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Emily Darlington (Milton Keynes Central) (Lab)
My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech and bringing the debate back to people, which is where it needs to be. I want to highlight a case in my constituency of a young transgender person who spent two years on the under-18s waiting list for an initial appointment. They have now aged out of that waiting list and potentially have a six-year wait, meaning that when they are able to speak to a doctor or a health professional it will have been eight years. Their parents approached me to tell me how much that is damaging their young one.
Karl Turner (in the Chair)
Order. I remind Members that interventions need to be very short. Lots of Members want to take part in this debate and long interventions eat into the time for speeches.