UK: Top sex-change expert faces ban

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Dr Heather Peto of Cambridge University and the LGBT human rights group OutRage! argue that charges of professional misconduct against one of the world's leading gender identity specialists are not in the interests of transgender people and bring shame to the medical and psychiatric professions.

This week the General Medical Council began to hear allegations of professional misconduct against Dr Russell Reid, an internationally-renowned consultant psychiatrist specialising in transgender and gender reassignment issues, commonly referred to medically as gender dysphoria or Gender Identity Disorder (GID).

The allegations are that between 1984 and 2003 Dr Reid prescribed sex-change treatment for some transgender patients too quickly and without a sufficient cooling off period to allow patients to change their minds.
Posted on: October 06, 2006, 08:51:30 AMSee also

[Melissa]

Dr Russell Reid faces allegations that he breached guidelines on
prescribing hormone treatment and gender reassignment surgery.

That's exactly what they are--guidelines.  They are not laws or rules.  Guidelines are something to help you determine an appropriate course of action without actually stipulating required actions.

Sheesh.

Melissa