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Gender Dysphoria: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been referred by the NHS’s Gender Dysphoria National Referral Support Services for masculinising chest surgery in the last five years.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
12 Feb 2025
Answer
24 Feb 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been referred by the NHS’s Gender Dysphoria National Referral Support Services for masculinising chest surgery in the last five years.

  2. 12 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 24 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    Referrals for masculinising chest surgery are made by the specialist clinical teams in the NHS Gender Dysphoria Clinics, not by the NHS Gender Dysphoria National Referral Support Service (GDNRSS). The non-clinical role of the GDNRSS is to process the refe...

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