Transgender patients facing a years-long wait for NHS gender care are being handed a "death sentence", says the mum of a trans woman who took her own life.
Data obtained by Newsnight and analysed by the BBC found it would take 10 years to clear the backlog of people waiting for first appointments in gender care.
https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68602939.amp
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖ /
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