Transgender patients furious over NHS treating them the same as other women

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The health service has been attacked for “distressing” the trans community.

Those changing their sex from female to male receive central NHS funding for chest reconstruction.

But those changing sex from male to female have their cases reviewed by local health boards.

James Morton, manager of the Scottish Trans Alliance said: “It’s really discriminatory at the moment and trans-phobically motivated as far as we can see.

“It’s the classic thing where it’s not seen as medically necessary but as a lifestyle choice.”

NHS psychiatrists refer men who identify as women under the same rules as those born female.

Transgender activists said this causes “severe psychological distress” to those transitioning.

Transitioning woman Becky Kaufmann, 55, said the rules are “incredibly frustrating”.

She said: “As a middle aged late transitioning trans woman, after four years on hormones, without enhancements in my chest, I basically look like an overweight middle-aged man. ”