Trans life: getting help from a gender clinic shouldn’t be a waiting game My referral led to a two-year wait for a 40-minute conversation. Is speedier NHS support really too much to ask?
Transgender is an umbrella term and it’s important not to forget the diversity beneath it. That said, there is one thing most trans people have in common and that’s the experience of waiting.
First, we wait for referrals from our GPs to a gender clinic. Or – even though the NHS recognises that being trans is not a mental illness – to a psychiatrist, who, I was apologetically told, had more authority to issue gender clinic referrals. Continue reading... The Guardian
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