Understand the LGBTQIA+ headlines and keep track of the latest queer content and perspectives. The QueerAF newsletter is written by Jamie Wareham and a different queer creative each week.
💬 This week:
- NHS England: Amid a ban on prescribing hormones for gender affirming care for 16 and 17-year-olds, and a wider review into their use in adults, we explore growing fears about whether this signals a pathway to the end of NHS gender affirming care.
- Transmission: The concert fighting for Trans+ rights. We look at the significance, the celebration, and go behind the scenes.
- France: A change in marital laws was designed to help protect women, but Yasmin Benoit explores how it's also a positive shift for the ace community in the Queer Gaze [CW: sexual assault].
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Fears NHS England review could lead to the end of publicly funded gender affirming care
TL;DR: New prescriptions of hormones for use as gender affirming care have been 'paused' for 16- and 17-year-olds, amid a 90-day consultation following a review. An impact report leaked to the Daily Mail also revealed that NHS England was already reviewing adult access to this form of Trans+ healthcare. By Jamie Wareham, with analysis from Ludovic Parsons.
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