Unsurprisingly none of them bothered to highlight this -
"Earlier this year NHS Lothian paused referrals for gender-affirming surgery undertaken outside Scotland. This was to enable a review of our assessment and referral processes to ensure they were supported by good clinical governance and to enhance patient safety."
So basically the NHS want to check where these patients are coming from. What procedures they've had and who carried them out.
Meanwhile -
"Earlier this year NHS Lothian paused referrals for gender-affirming surgery undertaken outside Scotland. This was to enable a review of our assessment and referral processes to ensure they were supported by good clinical governance and to enhance patient safety."
So basically the NHS want to check where these patients are coming from. What procedures they've had and who carried them out.
Meanwhile -
Quote:We've been sending billions in aid... This has now become a quagmire that half of the USA doesn't support. Ukraine was on a path to peace but the west put them on the war path when Western officials urged Zelenskyy to tear up the minsk accords several years ago. Russia doesn't want anti ballistic missile systems on their borders to neutralize their defensive capabilites, and we just collectively said "fuck your feelings" and beat the war drum while waiting for Russia to make the first move.
No excuses for Putin for actually taking the bait, but make no mistake the west collectively set the stage for this conflict and has been acting fairly recklessly with its stifled support which has only elongated the conflict.
Now we are at a crossroads, and cooler heads are nowhere to be found. This ain't looking too good. Nuclear war is unlikely, but US boots on the ground and the resuming of the Korean-Russo war is just what the military industrial complex was looking for after Afghanistans "abrupt" end.
Meanwhile we sit here and cheer for our team while people are dying in the tens of thousands. Not that you and I can do fuck all about it.