NHS Scotland under-fire for including 'eunuch' as a gender in latest woke moveĪn internet forum called "Angels" urged him to transition "now" before it was too late, causing the young man to latch on to the idea."That's me, I thought." Read More Related Articles There, he found discussions about gender dysphoria, the fear of living in the wrong sexual body. "Everyone in the family joked and expressed disgust and disapproval of gay people".Īt the age of 23, he withdrew to an online world where he felt he could be himself. "I knew deep down from a young age I was gay and was deeply terrified of it," he says in his tweets describing his past. This was followed by an NHS operation called 'penile inversion with scrotal graft' which removes male genitalia and uses the tissue to construct a false vagina. TullipR transitioned more than a decade ago, aged 25, and started taking female hormones to feminise his body. On June 22, he posted an image with a huge bundle of medical notes which will be used by his lawyers to bring the case against the NHS. "I was not even asked if I wanted to freeze my sperm, or have kids in the future." That is the correct term," "I cannot believe they were allowed to do this to me. He shared a post with his 21,000 followers on Twitter, under the pseudonym TullipR. The man says he is gay and believes his sexuality should have been discussed before the irreversible gender surgery. The patient, who is in his thirties has now de-transitioned from being a woman.
Lawyers in Liverpool have taken on the case, which focuses on whether the NHS and its gender clinics adequately counselled him before the operation five years ago. "He has a very real case for compensation against the health service. Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend, a group advising parents on transgender children and young adults, said: "It is hoped this will force a re-think by the NHS about this kind of barbaric surgery on patients who are told by medics it will help them. READ MORE: Epilepsy charities calls for more specialist nurses in ScotlandĪccording to campaigners, it is the first medical negligence case over NHS transgender care in this country. The Daily Mail reported that the surgery, which removed his genitals, left him infertile, incontinent and feeling like a "sexual eunuch". The Brit, who wished to remain anonymous due to shame, described the surgery on Twitter as "the biggest mistake of life", complaining that doctors did not warn him of the drastic outcome of the body-altering surgery. A young man who underwent gender reassignment surgery is suing the NHS over the operation.