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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Gender Dysphoria: Surgery (28 June 2021)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that gender affirming surgery is available to transgender men.

Asked by:
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)

Answer

NHS England and NHS Improvement committed additional funding for specialised surgical services for individuals with gender dysphoria in 2020/21, to reflect an increase in the number of commissioned surgical providers following a national procurement in 2019. NHS England and NHS Improvement are funding fellowships for surgeons to train in gender reassignment surgery. The first fellowship started in May at Imperial College. The contract for phalloplasty services is currently out to tender with view for rapid award.


Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
2 July 2021

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