Calling All Scottish Parents

Organizing to fight back against gender clinics

Scotland has embedded trans ideology into our schools and society over the past 10 years. It’s hard to know why the Scottish government has decided to take us down this route. Perhaps they just wanted to differentiate from England? Perhaps they were trying to be a small, socially progressive country and felt this was a cause to get behind? Perhaps it was funding from USAID? We may never know the real reason, but too many of us are reaping the “benefits” of the government policy in the ruined lives of our kids and families.

There is one NHS Gender clinic in Scotland, The Sandyford in Glasgow, but also one private clinic in Edinburgh. This was previously known as YourGP (part of the Larger YourGP group) but is now rebranded as The Waterside Clinic. The NHS waiting lists are a blessing in this instance – keeping our kids away from medicalisation for longer, but, of course, the private clinic is instantly accessible and only too happy to “help”.

My family’s involvement with the clinic started in 2023. Our son (19 years old at the time) had been away at University in Glasgow since September 2022. We still saw him regularly but not for prolonged periods. Then in July 23 he came home on holiday for a week. We noticed physical changes and managed to get him to open up. When we asked him outright if he was taking female hormones he broke down in tears and replied, yes. He said he’d come to realise he was transgender over lockdown and once he turned 18, he had been buying hormones online and injecting himself.

We were horrified but said we would always love and support him. We offered to tell the wider family and his sister (which he refused) and then, after some frantic online research, offered to pay for an appointment at the private gender clinic. Now I laugh bitterly at my naivety but, at the time, I knew nothing about transgender health care. I just knew that my son, whilst gentle, kind, intelligent, probably mildly autistic and gay, was not a woman. He’d never even been gender non-conforming! Although at that stage I didn’t know the term, he was a classic ROGD boy. I thought the clinic would recognise this, persuade him off the illegal hormones, arrange appropriate counseling and all would be well.

Ha! I feel a bit foolish now! He saw Dr. Chong at the clinic for an hour and Dr Chong did agree it was risky to be injecting drugs purchased (with BitCoin!) off the web, but he would be delighted to provide hormones privately instead. The doctor could tell, just from that one-hour visit, that our son was obviously a tortured soul trapped in the wrong body. Chong also talked about getting a second opinion via a zoom call to formalise his “diagnosis”. My son shared the clinic report with me but wasn’t happy about moving onto the private hormones, as they required some blood tests to be done so he didn’t get around to organising them. His Dad and I were now more informed but not actively encouraging him to move along the pathway to and official diagnosis.

So, for now, he remains injecting hormones acquired illegal online. We are still close with him. We still call him by his birth name. We refer to him as son or brother. He still presents as a male with long hair and most of his friends and family are clueless about the turmoil.

In the meantime, I have spent the last two years reading up on gender ideology and “healthcare”. I am desperately worried about his health, as I have learned more about the effects of hormone abuse on young bodies. He refuses to discuss it so, like many families we ignore gender and concentrate on keeping the connection.

Now to the point. I read a P.I.T.T. post (The Girl in the Tinkerbell Dress) recently written by a Dad whose daughter had also attended The Waterside Clinic where the staff were also happy to affirm her, offering testosterone after one visit and talking about future surgery. Luckily, she hasn’t started hormones as her Dad managed to scare the clinic off by asking difficult questions. He used The Genspect Parents’ questionnaire, and now he is hopeful his daughter is desisting.

I connected with that Dad and our stories were very similar – we also both had the Waterside clinic reports which seemed negligent to our eyes. My son had shared his report willingly with me. This other Dad only saw it by chance when the clinic posted it to the home address by mistake.

So, now we have both put in complaints to the Scottish Healthcare Inspectorate which oversees both private and NHS clinics. We need to start making some noise! I call on any Scottish parents who have dealt with Sandyford or The Waterside to get in touch and put something in writing to the Inspectorate. And for parents with kids waiting to attend private or NHS clinics, please look at the Friends and Family survey and use this to fire a warning shot across the bow of any medic who is considering permanently damaging your child with blockers, hormones, or surgery.

Government and Society may have been captured in Scotland and elsewhere, but we parents know the truth about our kids, we need to stand up and fight for them. If you want to get in touch, please email Pitt@genspect.org and they will forward your email.