"Unfair endocrinology dept"

My brother has a pituitary adenoma and needed to be seen by an endocrinologist. His GP sent a brief letter and we were not happy when the reply came back. The GP had mentioned my brothers past history which included the word Transgender, ,he transitioned successfully from female to male years ago and he was a bit unhappy that this was brought up. His GP wrote also that he had been discharged from the gender identity clinic years ago as he's completed his transition.

One of the consultants replied that he would need to go to a gender identity clinic as only GICs have funding to see transgender people plus they do not see people with transgender issues? My brother has a hormonal issue and surely this needs addressing.

I contacted the GIC who said this is complete nonsense and that when they discharge patients back into the care of their GP they can be referred to any NHS hospital.

The Royal Free still dispute this even though the head endocrinologists at the GIC contacted them and told him that my brother has a right to be seen and can go to any endocrine department and the consultant still chooses to ignore this. The Royal Free should be treating someone for their issue here which is a pituitary adenoma, not discriminating against him because of his gender identity.

Absolutely horrendous.