Gender affirming surgeries treated as "non essential"; as hospitals prepare for COVID

That's a really sad story. Nobody could have predicted that.

there are millions of people like the OP who genuinely think trans-appeasement should be a priority of our healthcare professionals right now

Are you really trying to score odd political points over this? Despicable.

So as I understand it..... we have a list of patients that we discuss each week and their outcomes. They appear to be grading according to severity. So I have one patient who has an incompletely excised cancer - normally she would get an operation within a couple of weeks to remove it. She has been told that she will have to wait until after the Covid19 has died down. She is unlikely to die of cancer but if that was me I would want it done like now. I think they will probably do the most severe, but it is the bed crisis. The older patients are more likely to need an intensive care bed post operatively. They are also at more risk of contracting the virus because - old, cancer, multiple comorbidities etc. So it is a fine balancing act - what is more likely to kill them - virus or cancer. Need the wisdom of Solomon for this.

A couple of years ago I had a patient whose cancer was curable. He decided to go on a cruise that he had already booked - couple of months. By the time he came back he was palliative - still horrifies me that one.

I think it's time for TSR to have an AngryPangolin account to go head-to-head with the wu mao.

I mean you could have heeded China's warnings from two months ago. But if you ignore the last two months, yes it came out of nowhere.

I mean you could have heeded China's warnings from two months ago.

If anything, evidence shows that negative effects caused by Gender Dysphoria stay at the same rate post-surgery, so there's no reason to consider gender reassignment surgery as emergency treatment.

Given it absolutely doesn't, the evidence is comprehensive in that gender transition is effective I'd suggest you cite your claims

Seem to have accidentally repped you twice there - my bad, I misclicked and didn't mean to rep you but to quote you.

As regards the statement, my thoughts on the transgender debate are that:
If a lot of your argument is ”cis people are scum” ”xyz character is a pansexual aromantic demigirl otherkin” and ”kill all TERFs” then most people will ignore you. If you want to be taken seriously as a movement and not treated like raging bigots, don't act like it towards people with a different opinion on whether people with penises should share a changing room with teenage girls.

Given it absolutely doesn't, the evidence is comprehensive in that gender transition is effective I'd suggest you cite your claims

I looked at about 10 of the studies before giving up. I couldn't get access to some of them, but most were either ambiguous or had no comment in regards to the suicide rate post-surgery. I appreciate that you're citing, but can you cite a specific study that at least shows a decrease in the suicidal rate post-surgery?

And sure. First off, the June 2016 “Proposed Decision Memo for Gender Dysphoria and Gender Reassignment Surgery” concluded that,

"Based on a thorough review of the clinical evidence available at this time, there is not enough evidence to determine whether gender reassignment surgery improves health outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with gender dysphoria. There were conflicting (inconsistent) study results – of the best designed studies, some reported benefits while others reported harms.".

But the actual study I'm referring to is the most largest and popular study that was conducted in Sweden regarding the after-effects of sexual reassignement surgery. In fact, it's pretty depressing. Most sex reassignment studies wrap up after a few months/years, but this one showed that results didn't become apparent until after 10 years. The results were,

"The overall mortality for sex-reassigned persons was higher during follow-up (aHR 2.8; 95% CI 1.8–4.3) than for controls of the same birth sex, particularly death from suicide (aHR 19.1; 95% CI 5.8–62.9). Sex-reassigned persons also had an increased risk for suicide attempts (aHR 4.9; 95% CI 2.9–8.5) and psychiatric inpatient care (aHR 2.8; 95% CI 2.0–3.9). Comparisons with controls matched on reassigned sex yielded similar results. Female-to-males, but not male-to-females, had a higher risk for criminal convictions than their respective birth sex controls."

Concluding that,

"Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group."