Dozens of children questioning their gender, including some under 13 years old, were inappropriately prescribed medication by a Brighton GP practice, an NHS safety investigation has found.
A year-long inquiry into the WellBN clinic found that 78 young patients were potentially harmed after puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones were prescribed without proper checks.
More than 20 children were given medication without a face-to-face appointment between February 2023 and December 2025.
Brighton. It would be Brighton.
Dr Christopher Tibbs, regional medical director for NHS England, said that young people were put at a high risk of harm because clinicians provided “specialist diagnosis, care and treatment that they were neither qualified, nor commissioned to deliver”.
“Under no circumstances should this have happened,” he added.
Not even the circumstance of being in Brighton, where trans ideology is all but mandatory?
The investigation, run by five independent clinicians appointed by NHS Sussex, began in June 2025 after several families had complained about the services the clinic was offering to under 18s, and after a civil legal case had started against the clinic and the NHS.
One father told the BBC that his 16-year-old child was given hormones without his knowledge in what he describes as a “medical scandal” while another said the stress of the situation had left him suicidal.
The final report said that 78 children under 18 years old were prescribed gender medication by the clinic from 2023 to late 2025.
Some were given drugs designed to delay or suppress puberty, while others were given cross-sex hormones, also known as masculinising and feminising hormones.
I wonder if it ever crossed anyone’s mind that maybe, it being Brighton and all, the children weren’t so much stricken with gender anguish as they were soaked in gender ideology because it was Brighton.
The report found that:
- Overall the approach to care fell “far short of what could be considered safe or appropriate”
- None of the clinicians investigated were professionally competent to start children on gender medications
- There was an “absence of advice or support” from doctors who specialise in hormones or the treatment of children questioning their gender
- Necessary blood tests were often not carried out, putting children’s physical health at risk
- The overall risk to young patients was potentially high, although actual harm was hard to quantify partly because of poor record keeping
Pretty damn stunning, wouldn’t you say? Trends are one thing, and messing up teenagers for life is quite another.
Rachel Cashman, who co-founded PSHE Brighton, says the stress of the situation had “ruptured” families, leaving some parents estranged from their children.
“It’s not just the medical damage, but the collateral damage for relationships and families that is far greater than people have ever really thought to examine,” she adds.
Cashman says some of the children prescribed hormone treatments had also been diagnosed with conditions such as autism and ADHD, and the focus on gender medication risked overshadowing their wider health needs.
The report found that 53 of the 78 cases reviewed had possible neuro-developmental issues.
Jeezus christ. Primum non nocere eh? Whatever happened to that?
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