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Serving transgender patients (triple helix - Winter 2018)

Background I have worked as a salaried GP in a university town centre practice for 23 years. Until 2014, we could count on one hand the number of transgender patients on our list. Tragically, two of these (post-transition) have committed suicide. Since autumn 2014 we have experienced a sharp increase in...

Trivialising gender dysphoria: Government consultation simplifies complex issues (triple helix - Winter 2018)

The Government's public consultation (1) on possible means to make it simpler and easier for people in England and Wales to change their legal gender concluded on 22 October 2018. CMF made a submission. We oppose the move to a self-declaration model, not because we wish to endorse the current...

The divine image and the embodied soul:restoring a theology of the body (triple helix - Winter 2018)

What do the current drives for assisted suicide, abortion on demand, same-sex marriage, transgenderism, robot rights and presumed consent for organ donation have in common? They are certainly all backed by 'progressive' secularists who occupy the corridors of power. But more specifically they are all based on a sub-Christian view...

Relationships and Sex Education - Government Consultation (07/11/2018)

The Department for Education's (DfE) consultation on 'Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education, and Health Education' closed on 7 November 2018. The DfE is proposing that primary schools be required...

Reform of the Gender Recognition Act – Government Consultation (17/10/2018)

The Government's public consultation on possible means to make it simpler and easier for people in England and Wales to change their legal gender concludes on 19 October. Prime Minister...

Dr Peter Saunders speaking at the European Leadership Forum - 'Responding to the Sexual Revolution'

the conversion therapy controversy (triple helix - autumn 2017)

What is gay 'Conversion Therapy'? A debate this summer in the Church of England's General Synod concluded it 'has no place in the modern world', and called upon the Government to ban it. In the 1940s, psychiatrists offered 'curative' aversion therapies to homosexuals hoping to convert them to heterosexuality....

NICE: Sexually Transmitted Infections - Condom Distribution Schemes (13/09/2016)

NICE is consulting over proposals to provide a range of condom distribution schemes in an attempt to reduce the spread of STIs. Schemes under consideration include multicomponent schemes for young...

NHS Public Consultation on Gender Identity Development Service (20/04/2016)

Submission from Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) regarding the prescribing of cross-sex hormones to adolescents with gender dysphoria.NHS England recently launched a 30 day public consultation on a number of new...

Submission to the House of Commons Education Committee on Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE) and Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) in schools (09/06/2014)

This CMF submission emphasises the importance of parental involvement with regard to PSHE and SRE provision. Primary school governing bodies should remain free to decide whether or not to provide...