#eoegs — Public Fediverse posts

If you want to know more about just how the NHS is failing trans people, you should consider watching the below video by Abigail Thorn of PhilosophyTube & reading "The Transgender Issue: An Argument For Justice" by Shon Faye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eWIshUzr8

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/315349/the-transgender-issue-by-faye-shon/9780141991801

13/13

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So while I know I probably should feel grateful that I've been seen at all by the NHS, I can't help but feel loathing & anger at a system that is deliberately designed to be slow, limited & hidden behind unnecessary gatekeeping.

12/13

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Returning to NHS care, please note that it won't offer me any of the following:

• Face Feminisation Surgery (FFS) ~£10-20K
• Voice Feminisation Surgery (VFS) ~£5k
• Either an orchi(d)ectomy (~£5K) or Peritoneal Pull-Though (PPT) vaginoplasty (N/A)

If I do want these, I'll have to go private 😖

11/13

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I'll need a GRC to update my birth certificate & my marriage certificate.

Its requirements include:
• A gender incongruence/dysphoria diagnosis.
• Living as my affirmed gender for >=2 years.

It might take them 22 WEEKS to even look at any application 😐

10/13

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Please note that I'M one of the luckier ones.

I was able to afford going part-private (GenderCare) to begin gender affirming care, including a private diagnosis for updating documents & for starting the clock ticking on getting a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).

9/13

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AFAIUI, this is all before they'll start to offer me HRT or surgical options via the NHS.

Voice coaching & more laser/electrolysis options are available, but only if I "pass" their assessments...

... & are based on funding at local levels, with further waits for approval.

8/13

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So, in another ~8 months, someone else from Cambridge or Nottingham will pretty much ask me the same questions & then tell me whether they'll provide me care via their pathway.

So about ~26 months for them to tell me if I'm trans enough for care 😐

7/13

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What's really bad is when you consider that I'm actually being seen QUICKLY by NHS England standards, as the EOEGS is a pilot scheme to reduce waiting times.

I've "only" been on the NHS waiting list since the end of May 2021 (~18 months).

This is speedy by NHS standards.

6/13

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Please note that I have zero complaints about the lovely nurse. She was kind, considerate & empathetic, as well as openly acknowledging the NHS system issues.

However, if I were solely waiting on the NHS for gender affirming care, I'd still be waiting for basic HRT.

5/13

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However, this 1st appointment:

• Was by a nurse.
• Didn't result in a diagnosis of gender incongruence / dysphoria.
• Will require a 2nd appointment in ~ 8 months' time to tell me whether they'll accept me on to the EOEGS care pathway.

😑

4/13

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I was also asked typical things like:

• What I want from the NHS.
• What my transition goals/hopes are.
• My experience of dysphoria.

In other words, everything you'd expect from a pathologised, diagnostic approach to assessing whether someone is trans.

3/13

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In terms of questions, they were pretty standard admin & diagnostic ones.

E.g.,
• Admin stuff like names, documents etc.
• Timeline of coming out.
• Memories of gender dissonance.
• Family support.
• Gamete storage.
• Mental/physical health.

2/13

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So, I had my 1st appointment today with the East of England Gender Service (EOEGS).

I wrote about suddenly getting offered the appointment previously on bird site, but I want to advise roughly what happened in it while it's fresh in my mind before I forget.

1/13

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