Communications relating to removed transgender health advice from MoH website
Daniel Richards made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
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From: Daniel Richards
Dear Ministry of Health,
I am requesting all communications in relation to the Ministry of Health decision to remove the transgender health advice from the Ministry of Health website.
This is in relation to https://twitter.com/marcdaalder/status/1... and https://www.newsroom.co.nz/pro/health-ad... (currently paywalled)
Yours faithfully,
Daniel Richards
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Chris McCashin left an annotation ()
A quick scan of the response and the attachments confirms that
- nobody seems to know who was responsible for comments on the website
- are potentially in breach of Section 20 medicines act
- physicians are prescribing these for unapproved use
- don’t know the safety profile
And going forward - the webpage has been removed whilst the safety profile is researched for six months all the while physicians are likely to keep prescribing this stuff! Not a good look by “Health” professionals
Link to this