The NHS has spent at least £250 million on transgender procedures for children and adults in England in the last five years, it has been reported.
According to The Mail on Sunday, Freedom of Information requests reveal that during the first ten months of 2024-25 the figure was £88 million — 20 per cent higher than in all the previous twelve months.
The data does not include the cost of surgical procedures for three years, or any costs involving the prescription of cross-sex hormones, meaning the estimated total figure for NHS spending on trans procedures is over £100 million a year.
At least £48 million was used on adult ‘sex-change’ surgeries such as mastectomies over the last two years, while the amount spent on children’s non-surgical procedures rocketed 50 per cent from £17.5 million in 2023-24, to £26.5 million in 2024-25 up to January.
Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder and Director of Transgender Trend, stated: “NHS England’s job is to treat medical problems yet they are creating medical problems where none previously existed.
“To spend so much on damaging people’s bodies for no evidenced reason is unacceptable and in the case of children unconscionable.”
Director of Campaigns for Sex Matters Fiona McAnena agreed, adding: “£250 million is an obscene amount for the NHS to spend on experimental and often dangerous surgeries for people who want to look more like the opposite sex.”