Comments on: Call out for responses on difficulty accessing Gender Identity Services https://actionfortranshealth.org.uk/2014/08/29/call-out-for-responses-on-difficulty-accessing-gender-identity-services/ Campaigning for democratic healthcare Thu, 07 Dec 2017 23:48:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: Antonia Richardson https://actionfortranshealth.org.uk/2014/08/29/call-out-for-responses-on-difficulty-accessing-gender-identity-services/#comment-33 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:06:47 +0000 https://actionfortranshealth.org.uk/?p=201#comment-33 In reply to Sarah Jane Pattison.

I live in Poole, I too have tried to get voice therapy and have been refused, it seems that funding is not available to Transsexuals, if as stutterer I required it there would not be a problem, friends of mine that live in adjacent counties to Dorset apparently obtain it without any problems. It seems that Dorset lives in the dark ages as far as the transgenderd person is concerned. I am considering writing to my MP on just this issue.

Antonia

]]> By: Sarah Jane Pattison https://actionfortranshealth.org.uk/2014/08/29/call-out-for-responses-on-difficulty-accessing-gender-identity-services/#comment-32 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 07:41:10 +0000 https://actionfortranshealth.org.uk/?p=201#comment-32 The system involves having the strength and conviction to argue ones way through it. This is exactly the opposite of what is needed. I to the stage of having to start a new case about accessing voice training after spending g most of this year waiting, my local hospital in Dorchester turning me down for treatment and no clear solutions coming forward from the Laurels. This came on the back of a complaint sorted out through PALs about the start of hormonal treatment and appointment delays at the beginning of the year. There was never any question about my diagnosis but i really don’t know if I will ever reach or have the strength to fight for surgery. Clinicians don’t seem to understand that this is a life threatening condition. The system is too focused on wasting scarce resources on unnecessary psychiatric involvement rather than genuine medical treatment. There is more reason for psychiatric engagement with many of the girls that I know than setting a psychiatrist to work on a cancer patient to prove that they are not a hypochondriac. To treat potentially venerable people in this way is completely unacceptable.

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