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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 03:00:21 JST goatsarah

   Do cis people in the UK actually think there has ever been a point at which transgender medicine was widely and routinely available on the NHS?

   Guys, it never has. When they exist at all, the services are chronically underfunded with waiting lists that literally stretch for decades.

   To a first approximation, if you want to medically transition in the UK, you are on your own, unless you want to fight a war of attrition for years.

   TERFs like to pretend that you can easily access NHS gender identity services as if it were just a thing people do.

   It appears some people have believed their fairy tales. However badly you think trans people are treated by the medical establishment in the UK, I promise you that the reality is worse, and always has been.

   “Children on puberty blockers”. Fucking state of it. There are no children on puberty blockers. Not because they’re trans, anyway.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 04:46:08 JST goatsarah

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     • Isabel Ruffell

     @iaruffell I transitioned with a lot of people who tried and were unable to access it.

     Even at the peak of trans acceptance in the UK, being able to access ANYTHING depended on your postcode at least, and probably a few other things. Some PCTs as we’re basically refused to refer anyone for anything at all.

     At which point, you either had the money to go round them, or you found ways to get it 😞

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     Isabel Ruffell (iaruffell@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 04:46:09 JST Isabel Ruffell

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     @goatsarah Totally endorse your summary of the lies, but there is a difference between underfunded and an exercise in bloody-mindedness on the one hand and wholly unavailable on the other. Many of us have no choice but to grit our teeth and grind through the system. Which is as bad as you say.