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Veganism and hormone therapy for all: The Greens’ plan for the NHS

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11.09.2026

Hormone therapy for all, climate testing medicines and race-based targets for mental-health detentions are among Green Party proposals to reform healthcare in England. A policy document submitted by Zack Polanski’s official Health Policy Working Group, leaked to The Spectator, also reveals ambitions to push the NHS towards veganism and a ban on ‘sustained efforts’ to discourage ‘gender-affirming’ treatments. The document is likely to be put to Green members at the party’s autumn conference in Brighton next month. Its provenance makes it particularly significant – this is not merely a motion from an individual activist, but the work of an official policy group.

The prospect of a trans-obsessed, plant-based NHS dispensing climate-tested medicines is unlikely to be an obvious electoral draw

The prospect of a trans-obsessed, plant-based NHS dispensing climate-tested medicines is unlikely to be an obvious electoral draw

The 296-page document, titled The Green Way to Health, devotes considerable space to transgender issues. It calls for NHS provision to be expanded to encompass a ‘wider range of gender affirming treatments’, without specifying what those treatments would involve. No........

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