Gender Dysphoria: Health Services

(asked on 14th May 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Merron on 15 April (HL Deb cols 332-334), what definition of ‘safeguarding’ they applied to that answer.


Answered by
Baroness Merron Portrait
Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 2nd June 2026

With reference to my answer in HL Deb cols 332-334 (NHS Adult Gender Identity Clinics), I summarised the care and safeguards provided within adult gender services, as described by the Gender Identity Services for Adults (Non-Surgical Interventions) service specification.

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