The BPS is not the statutory regulation body for Practitioner Psychologists in the UK which is the Health and Care Professions Council.

[12] In June 2024 the BPS issued an update to their "Guidelines for Psychologists Working with Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity".

They state that the revised BPS guidelines: "represent an active barrier to much needed change in philosophy and practice for psychologists working in re-formed Gender Services in the immediate future".

[13] However, the BPS has clarified that its updated guidelines did not refer to the Cass Review because these relate to adults, not children and young people.

The BPS made this point on its website: The purpose of this interim review was to assess the content in the guidance and update where necessary and appropriate.

We know that the area of U18s and gender incongruence is a challenging and often highly politically charged one, which is why we have begun recruitment for the Task and Finish Group.

As of 2014, the BPS states that the email has over 32,000 subscribers and the Digest blog attracts hundreds of thousands of page views a month.

Its members work in solidarity and mutual respect alongside people experiencing marginalisation, disempowerment and oppression.

BPS currently has the following special groups to provide a forum for members working in particular specialist fields, with a particular focus on training, practice, and professional development[48] The Society also organises regional branches throughout the United Kingdom.

The UK government announced its intention to widen statutory regulation, to include inter alia psychologists, following a number of scandals arising in the 1990s in the psychotherapy field.

[51] The British Psychological Society's logo is an image of the Greek mythical figure Psyche, personification of the soul, holding an oil lamp.