Sarah, The Bringer of Tea
10th November, 2010
11:26 pm
Charing Cross Myths

http://auntysarah.livejournal.com/252920.html

The following document has come to my attention. It is something that has been produced by clinicians at the West London Mental Health Trust (i.e. Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic), I guess as part of a patient/community relations exercise, and aims to detail some commonly held beliefs about the clinic and contrast them with their view. I am told that all the clinicians have signed up to it. Here's the document - feel free to pass it around, and I hope it proves helpful!

    WLMHT GENDER IDENTITY CLINIC (GIC) MYTHS

    The WLMHT ("Charing Cross") Gender Identity Clinic has existed in one form or another since the early 1960s, and clinical practice is constantly evolving. It is perhaps inevitable that, in that time, a number of false beliefs and misconceptions have arisen.

    Not all these beliefs are "myths" in the sense of having always been untrue – some stem from the way the GIC operated in the past, or the approaches of previous clinicians – but all are outdated, and unreflective of current treatment protocol.