Meeting description: Following her appointment as Minister we discussed the Scottish Government's National Health Service Gender Identity Services strategic action framework which seeks to transform gender identity services in Scotland. We shared our view that the work that had been undertaken since the framework was introduced in 2021 had resulted in some important and meaningful changes but felt that it was unlikely that gender identity services would be meeting the needs of trans people to be able to access high quality person centred timely care by the time it is due to complete in 2024. In particular we raised the fact that initially the Scottish Government had committed to spending 9 million on implementing the framework but that it was currently not on course to meet that commitment. We also discussed our view that it was disappointing that there had not been as much innovation on delivering services in a new way or "piloting" new approaches to gender identity healthcare than we and indeed trans people across Scotland had hoped when the framework was initially announced. We asked that the Minister to consider what the Scottish Government could do to make sure gender identity services really do meet the needs of trans people including whether this might require extending the framework or considering other ways it could support improvement to these services and meeting the commitment to provide 9 million of funding.
Topic label: Health