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NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect (www.wearequeeraf.com)

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Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place

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[–] QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 24 points 2 days ago

Apparently they did this because WGS was prescribing surgeries at a rate higher than that of the UK branch, and they wanted to "investigate" to make sure they were necessary.

So why did WGS prescribe surgeries at a higher rate? The real reason is because WGS was seeing transpeople at a timely rate at all, the UK Branch was putting people on waiting lists for 25 years.