Bethan

Welsh born and raised 🐉 Supporter of independent Wales

[Challis' Musings (Contemporary Poet & Lyricist) @ChallisMusings]

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[Bethan @SleepyBeths]

Really don't know who to vote for this election. It feels like women's rights have been completely thrown out the window by most parties but I can't bring myself to vote reform

[@YesCymruRhuthun @yescymruruthin]

IMMIGRATION ISN'T DEVOLVED

IT'S WESTMINSTER 'S RESPONSIBILITY

[Bethan @SleepyBeths]

@CliffordIanLom1 @heleddjones You're right but they have no respect for the Welsh identity at all. I feel women's rights have truly been thrown under the bus this election

[Bethan @SleepyBeths]

@heleddjones Thanks now I'm going to have nightmares about this!

[Heledd Jones @heleddjones]

If Reform win there will be a “why Tryweryn deserved to be flooded” exhibit at Sain Ffagan

[joseph chrysostom @josephchrysosto]

I have written to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) regarding what I believe to be deception associated with gender-related surgeries carried out by the NHS. In my view, the Health Secretary and their office hold ultimate responsibility for overseeing such procedures. I would like to know whether the Health Secretary will respond to the concerns I have raised. My letter is as follows:
From,
Dr. Joseph Chrysostom MS(Gen Surgery), FRCSEd.
GMC 5199143
To,
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
UK.
Dear Sir/Madam,
This is a whistle blowing letter to the DHSC written as a doctor registered with the GMC for more than two and a half decades, and practising as a hospital doctor in South Wales, United Kingdom.

In January 2025 I wrote to the NHS England with regards to the deceptive Vaginoplasty, Phalloplasty and bilateral mastectomy operations being performed by Surgeons who are registered with the GMC for a mental health condition called gender incongruence that is described in DSM-5 psychiatry manual.
In those emails, I have clearly outlined the reasons as to why these operations are deceptive in nature by incorporating tables that clearly distinguish the normal anatomy, physiology, biochemical and microbiological characteristics of a normal human vagina Vs the deep surgical wound lined by skin that these surgeons inflict upon vulnerable physically normal young men in this country.

In the email dated 19/01/2025 I wrote to the NHS England regarding the deceptions involving Phalloplasty operations. Again, I had explained in detail with tables the anatomical, physiological and biochemical differences between a normal Penis and the “skin and fat flap mound” these surgeons create from skin of Forearm/Thigh and claim it as a Penis.
In spite of my letters, neither the NHS England nor subsequently the DHSC investigated if these surgeons are indeed providing a vagina or a phallus as claimed by them.

On 19/02/2025, I have also written to the GMC regarding the deceptive nature of Vaginoplasty and Vulvoplasty operations that are being performed by surgeons in the UK. In that email, I have clearly outlined the reasons as to why these operations are deceptive in nature.
Unfortunately, the response I received from the GMC stated that the surgeons are performing these operations legally. The response did not address the central concern raised in my letter — namely, the false claim that these procedures provide a vagina. In other words, the GMC’s reply focused on the legal permissibility of the operation but failed to examine the accuracy and truthfulness of the claims being made to patients about the nature of the surgical outcome.

This omission is deeply concerning. The core issue is not merely whether surgeons are permitted to perform a surgical procedure, but whether patients are being misled about the nature of what is being created. If patients are led to believe that a vagina is being constructed, when in reality the operation produces a skin-lined slit with none of the defining biological characteristics of a vagina, then the validity of consent becomes highly questionable.

In a reply to my first letter to GMC regarding gender surgeries, GMC replied as follows:
Surgical procedures
“It’s not in our remit to give clinical advice or comment on clinical matters, for example on the safety or appropriateness of specific treatments. This is the role of a wide range of other organisations, such as National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), government health departments and the medical royal colleges. We are therefore unable to comment on the areas of your letter focused on surgical procedures provided to people with gender dysphoria.”

Therefore, I am writing this letter once again to DHSC (as advised by GMC) in light of further evidence that should prompt the DHSC to stop mutilating the young people of this country without a valid clinical indication.
The deceptions are as follows:
1.We provide a Vagina for men (Vaginoplasty) and a Penis for women (Phalloplasty)
2.We can masculinize (make a woman a man) and feminize (make a man a woman) human beings.

To seek clarity, I have also written to several other professional bodies. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh responded that these procedures are beyond their purview. The Royal College of Surgeons of England has not responded to my correspondence.
The Royal College of Physicians in London declined to state a formal position on the matter. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) referred responsibility to NHS England, while NHS England in turn referred the matter back to DHSC. To the best of my knowledge and belief NICE has not made any recommendations regarding the treatment of this psychiatric clinical condition that is described in DSM5.

Finally, I wrote to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman as advised by the GMC. PHSO, after going through my plea, decided that they are in no position to interfere with NHS policies and decisions and stop these mutilating surgeries on young men and women.

As a result, I remain very uncertain as to which professional or regulatory body is ultimately responsible for scrutinising and overseeing these procedures. This is especially concerning when they involve major irreversible, mutilating surgeries and their inevitable associated major life-threatening complications as well as lifelong sterility. When surgeons operate without an overseeing professional body, they are sailing a rudderless ship that can only lead to disaster for patients. In this context, these are normal healthy young people with just a fleeting mental health condition of adolescence (described in DSM-5) that may be cured with the help of good psychiatric care.

American Society of Plastic Surgeons:
I would like to bring to the attention of the DHSC the recently published position statement by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons on gender surgeries which is as follows:

American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Position statement:
“Consistent with ASPS’s August 2024 statement that the overall evidence base for gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions is low certainty, and in light of recent publications reporting very low/low certainty of evidence regarding mental health outcomes, along with emerging concerns about potential long-term harms and the irreversible nature of surgical interventions in a developmentally vulnerable population, ASPS concludes there is insufficient evidence demonstrating a favourable risk-benefit ratio for the pathway of gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions in children and adolescents. ASPS recommends that surgeons delay gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.”

The DHSC should note that American Society of Plastic Surgeons concludes there is insufficient evidence demonstrating a favourable risk–benefit ratio for gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions in children and adolescents.

According to the Oxford Handbook of Paediatrics in the UK, adolescence extend up to the age of 24. This raises very significant questions as to the wisdom of surgical treatments/castrations under that age and the safeguarding responsibility of DHSC in permitting them.

Indoctrination during childhood in schools:
Many of these young adults have been indoctrinated in council schools by the use of trans toolkits. A typical school trans tool kit is the Vale of Glamorgan trans tool kit which teaches non-biological pseudoscience to teachers and thereby to the students. I believe that this toolkit, while framed as educational guidance, forms the front end of a systemic “conveyor belt” that starts in the classroom and ends in the operating table. By affirming a child’s declared identity, promoting social transition, and framing hormones and surgeries as valid parts of “transition”, schools become unwitting recruiters into the gender medical industry.

When similar teaching materials are presented in schools in the rest of the country, this conveyer belt gets an endless supply of school indoctrinated young people who opt for mutilating genital surgeries and harmful unlicensed hormones voluntarily once they reach the age of 18.

These educational trans toolkits came into force in many schools across the country by 2015. Since then, there has been an exponential increase in the recruitment and presentation of children in the Tavistock clinic. This is not a coincidence; this is the rewards and results of teaching unscientific gender ideology for school children all over the UK through toolkits and other teaching materials. Once such teaching materials were employed through RSE lessons, gender dysphoria skyrocketed throughout the country as evidenced by the following graph.

Children who were taught and indoctrinated into this pseudoscience by state run schools are young adults now, in the age group between 18 to 32 years of age. The graph (shown at end of this letter) and the table shown below is evidence of linkage between indoctrination in schools and increased presentations in gender clinics.

Table 3: Reported referrals received by GDCs broken down by financial year
2021/22 2022/23. 2023/24. 2024/25
4,331 4,933. 9,001 9,985
% increase year on year–13.9%82.5%10.9%
Source: Arden and GEM NHS Commissioning Support Unit.

I strongly submit to the DHSC that many of these young adults with the indoctrinated, iatrogenic so-called gender incongruence, particularly those who are now between the ages of 18 and 32, are incapable of consenting due to the indoctrination that has happened in schools.

Finnish Study:
Recent results of Finnish study published in Acta Paediatrica journal is as follows:
Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland in 1996–2019: A Register Study
“Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up—rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in feminising gender reassignment and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising gender reassignment. After adjusting for prior psychiatric treatment, all gender-referred adolescents had similarly elevated risks of psychiatric morbidity, with hazard ratios approximately three times higher than female controls and five times higher than male controls.”
It is clear from this study that the psychiatric morbidity is at least six times worse following feminising treatments. Also, similar worse outcomes for masculinising treatments. This study clearly outlines the poor outcomes of these unwarranted futile surgical experimentation on our young people. Will the DHSC look into this study and take appropriate decisions to stop these deceptive surgeries?
Conflicts of Interest in drafting WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health) guidelines SOC-7andSOC-8

I am writing to raise concerns regarding the development of WPATH Standards of Care Version 8 guidelines (SOC-8), which are currently cited by some healthcare providers in the United Kingdom to justify mutilating surgeries on young people (age 18-32).
Recently unsealed court documents in the United States suggest that members of the SOC-8 guideline development group have had professional and/or financial conflicts of interest during the drafting process. This issue was reportedly acknowledged in court proceedings by a lead author involved in the development of these guidelines.

Additionally, it has been noted that gender surgeons involved in drafting both SOC-7 and SOC-8 guidelines have simultaneously been actively engaged in performing gender-related surgical procedures. This raises further questions regarding adherence to established standards for managing conflicts of interest in guideline development.

In light of these concerns, I urge the DHSC to carefully review the evidentiary basis and governance processes underpinning the SOC-8 guidelines, particularly with regard to transparency and conflicts of interest. It is essential that any clinical guidance from outside of UK that is adopted within the UK meets the highest standards of impartiality and integrity.
Suicidality claims
Suicidal tendency arises in patients due to extreme anxiety and/or major depressive illness. This condition has always been treated by psychiatrists and have established pathways of care in every health board. Hence it is not acceptable to submit young patients to mutilating surgeries for a mental health condition (described in DSM-5) causing a suicidal tendency. Local health board psychiatrists are competent to deal with such emergencies.
In conclusion:
May I request the DHSC to urgently intervene and stop mutilating adolescents and young adults of this country through Vaginoplasty, Phalloplasty, bilateral Orchidectomy and bilateral Mastectomies.
May I also request the DHSC not to shift the responsibility to other professional bodies as none of them to whom I wrote, are willing to take responsibility or endorse these mutilations.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Joseph Chrysostom MBBS, MS(Gen Surg), FRCSEd.
GMC 5199143.

Reference:
1.WPATH medical guidelines plagued by conflicts of interest -By Laurel https://t.co/hjmlmSxrOY

2.WPATH's Trans-Care Bible "Is Not Considered the Standard of Care"—Unheard Testimony From the $2M Detransitioner Lawsuit.
https://t.co/jtoie72ntA

I strongly recommend in public interest and for the safety of so-called gender incongruent young adults that GMC read Mr. Ryan’s witness to understand what the president elect of WPATH testified regarding WPATH “standards of care”.

3.Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland in 1996–2019: A Register Study. Wiley on-line library published in Acta Paediatrica
Original article with open access.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

"Son go stand in that pothole." "Sure thing dad."

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

The elitism of Reform
- only print election leaflets in English
- prove you are London centric by having them printed in London
- don't think about local printing or appealing to Welsh speakers
- parachute in a Leader from London

[Bethan @SleepyBeths]

@WRNWales @Plaid_Cymru Oh that is confusing. Will have to read the actual one now then

[Bethan @SleepyBeths]

@NationCymru What a joke

[Bethan @SleepyBeths]

@WRNWales @Plaid_Cymru I thought it read it last week? It should be on their site

[Non Jenkins ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @non_jenkins]

Their Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Senedd election flyer

in English only

printed in Feltham, London Borough of Houslow, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 …

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

BREAKING - Big Story

A memo from Keir Starmer to all members of the UK Gov Cabinet has been leaked.

In it the Prime Minister says “each of us will maintain a professional and respectful working relationship with our counterparts in devolved governments” but that “an overly deferential or laissez-faire approach to devolved government engagement almost inevitably creates political challenges or misses positive opportunities”.

He then adds:

“We should be confident in our ability to deliver directly in those nations, including through direct spending, even when devolved governments may oppose this.”

This memo was just 10 days after my newsletter exclusively broke the story that more than a third of Welsh Labour MSs had accused the Prime Minister of undermining devolution.

Plaid Cymru have just raised this with the First Minister in the Senedd. More updates to follow

The UK Gov has been approached for comment.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@NotHackingIt Whistleblowers inside the medical profession have been raising the alarm for years now, but there were more social media likes in parroting the nice easy slogans.

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

The Department for Work and Pensions is refusing to explain which disabled people it expects to lose out from nearly £2 billion in new cuts to disability benefits, six weeks after the “savings” were quietly revealed in budget documents.
#DWP #PIP #WCA
https://t.co/7nIkSm0ypW

[Bethan @SleepyBeths]

@WillHayCardiff God riddance

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

Reform UK's director for Wales has been removed from Cwmbran Community Council for failing to attend meetings.

David Thomas is also goes by the names "DJ Dowster" and "Dr Squeegees" (I am not joking).

He once posted a picture of himself "officially opening" a Lidl in his area though the supermarket says that no ceremony had taken place...

You can find out more about Dr Squeegees in our special report on Reform (see below).

(Props to @NewsatTwm for breaking the story)

[gender is harmful @genderisharmful]

Helen Webberley should be arrested.
https://t.co/CrU4taBwsv