""What is it like when you get erections?" is a question you do not want to hear in a 9am meeting. You would expect at least a little weekend catch-up before getting into all that. This piece of small talk comes from a consultant psychiatrist of the National Gender Service (NGS). Activist group Transgress the NGS released a video featuring this question last week taken during a regular assessment at the NGS."
"We need a service made for the needs of trans people, not the fears of others"
A consultant psychiatrist at the National Gender Service asked an invasive, sexualized question about erections during a 9am assessment. An activist group, Transgress the NGS, released a video of the exchange recorded during a routine appointment. The exchange highlights breaches of privacy and professional boundaries within gender-care assessments and underscores power imbalances between clinicians and trans patients. The incident raises concerns about clinical training, respectful assessment practices, and accountability. Gender health services require policies and practices that center trans patients' needs, bodily autonomy, and safety rather than catering to external anxieties or sensationalizing intimate details.
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