Thread from 25th April 2025

"It is important to remind your readers that gender is assigned at birth not on chromosomal confirmation but on the baby's physical appearance which can be incorrect and can lead to further complexities, particularly for intersex people."

Letter to The Irish Times 25th April 2025

"UCC medicine graduate Professor Des Crowley is clinical lead for the HSE Addiction Services, Dublin North, North Central and Northwest. In 1995 he established the opioid substitution treatment (OST) service at  Mountjoy Prison,.."

"Professor Crowley has spearheaded the first set of guidelines for GPs on  the treatment and care of transgender people. Following on from this work, he wrote and presented a lecture to medical  students at UCD on Transgender health issues, believed by the writer to the first of its kind in Ireland." (sic)

Here's the guide published January 2021:

But following complaints by women @ICGPnews pulled the guidelines:

"Last week the guide was removed from the ICGP website and later republished with a series of amendments. It now omits any reference to the use of puberty blockers being reversible, and no longer says that oestrogen and testosterone therapy are 'partially reversible'."

reported The Sunday Times on February 7th 2021.

Edited guide a month later:

The ICGP and TENI
The NHS removed its claim that puberty blockers are reversible in May of last year. Last month the ICGP produced guidance which claimed they were reversible but rapidly changed that last week. The HSE’s claim that they are reversible is still online.
Women’s Space IrelandWomen's Space Ireland

New cover but same date for the guidelines today:

Asking ICGP if these are the current guidelines or not; will provide response here.

A comparison of the February 2021 version and the current guide with the new cover can be seen here: https://draftable.com/compare/uaRRQgzNgZXg