I'm sure this has been asked multiple times, but is there any UK based Discord servers? I'm currently in one, buts it's multiple countries. I was wondering if there was one closer to home? TIA

it's not much, but after being openly trans for nearly 10 years now i finally took a major step by signing off my deed poll and changing my name. i feel really happy, and i'm glad that my immediate family are supportive about it - even my stepdad, who isn't the most accepting of people. i feel like i'm more ready to take even further steps now!!

going to start changing all my records and contacting people when my new passport comes through, and then i might see about booking an appointment with my gp. i'm not sure how it will go, given the current state of the nhs' transgender support, but for now...bring it on!!

Hello all -

American here moving to London in December and have read about going Private for trans care as the wait times for NHS are much longer. Question, I’ve been on hormones for over 15 years. Would I still need to see a trans specialist for my hormones or is this managed care my GP can provide? (At least until I see someone in trans care). Also I know some meds aren’t allowed to be prescribed in the UK and wanted to know if Spironolactone (200mg/day) and Estradiol (6mg/day) tablets were the usual meds prescribed as that’s what I’m on.

Hi :) I've (20NB) been considering my options recently as what i'm fairly certain is gender dysphoria (or at least, extremely severe chest dysphoria) has been completely ruining my life & my education (i'm currently limping my way through a law degree). I've identified with the queer label for some time now, since I was about sixteen, but never had much physical dysphoria until I hit nineteen and puberty came back for round two out of nowhere and left me battered and bruised. Now it's hard just to get out of bed and get dressed in the morning :(

I've reached a sort of breaking point now where i've realised that if i don't do *something* soon, i fear the worst. Currently, I'm considering taking a year or so out from uni to work & save for private treatment, as there's no way I'll last on the current waiting lists. I'm thinking of seeing a separate therapist first to try and figure out if there's more of my identity to explore before going for a gender dysphoria diagnosis.

But, here's the catch: I've been diagnosed with autism since I was eight years old, and when I was fifteen was diagnosed with anorexia - though it's recently come to light through further investigation (that I had to go through so I could stay at university last year) that I don't fit the diagnostic requirements, and probably never did (I was originally just told that I had it - I don't remember being formally assessed back then). It's more likely ARFID or OFSED/EDNOS. I know that autism and eating disorder diagnoses can complicate getting diagnosed with gender dysphoria a lot, based on what I've read on this sub and elsewhere. Is it the same for private too? And will appearing quite feminine (for various reasons; i keep my hair long to hide my chest + wear skirts/dresses due to sensory issues around trousers) also hold me back from a diagnosis? I'm going to try look more androgynous and leave some details out should I go through with an assessment, but if anyone has any further advice or reassurance that a diagnosis is still possible with all my awkwardness, that would be really helpful :)

Yh it's been hacked

Just wondering if anyone has heard of this and if it's any good. I'm pre T and trying to find a supplement or protein powder or something to just help. I'm not quite sure what I'm looking for so just some advice would help.

Who needs to know legally as soon as it's done? Is there anything online with this info, can't find much.

Hsgc want it done sooner rather than later.

Can it be done and sat on until ready or does anything need to be done immediately?

I've been updating her on the ways cass is dismantling any trans medical care in the UK because I've already hit into it with my GP knowing nothing and not caring about the difficulty of getting HRT but still sticking with that because I was 2 weeks under 18 he wouldn't hear it. She honestly believes that there is a team who can provide HRT in INCE with a wait time in high weeks or low months because he pointed out the door and said such referring to a counsellor. This has meant she doesn't want me to even ask for a shared care agreement (more on that later) with my GP to work with a private provider like gendercare.

Because I've pointed out that with FOI requests each individual clinic you can name has wait times in decades she's just said to get on it anyway because I unfortunately mentioned laser hair removal vouchers and that would be fine and what I want to do anyway if it wasn't where she wanted me to stop, her idea is that because I'm obviously wound up about it I'm just doomscrolling "like with how people were after seeing mad cow disease on the news" and somehow that makes the numbers invalid.

I have expressed my doubts that my GP with how he acted last time along with how many seem to be overreacting to cass' "guidance" would be willing to agree to shared care and tried to ease her into DIY as a concept in case I do have to (I can do it secretly next year if she doesn't accept it) and although she's said to just try it out (with an extra "if the wait lists ARE actually too long when you try the public path" so kicking the can further into the future) and I will, but only at the same time as asking to be put on a waiting list for a GIC because I know the numbers already and it's weird that she's not happy for me to do both in 1 meeting. This has of course became part of her narrative, she thinks my GP will 100% agree to both and I should just try the best (except for waiting times) options in sequence so me skipping to shared care is me reading too much into it. "Don't knock it until you try it" as though it'll all just work out fine.

Then today, the NHS is essentially trying to stop shared care agreements as part of a larger effort to seperate public from private healthcare so my GP the way I saw him act around HRT isn't a person who is going to disregard the general consensus about what cass wants and agree to something against the NHS' movement for years until one of us moves or dies and so I've lost my access to private HRT.

My choice is now to DIY if my GP doesn't make an informal agreement to shared care he won't have to document which just sounds like a pain he would be liable for. I can do so safely and well as secretly if need be but any advice for other pathways or ways to get into private without the fees for private prescription and blood tests will be appreciated. And I've had enough "just ask" recently, I will do but please respond as though it's a no (Which I am confident it will be).

Hi everyone, I don't usually use Reddit but this is something that's important and needs talking about. For context I am trans man who's been on T for a year now. I have regular blood tests with my GP that are then sent over to my endocrinologist. This time however my GP contacted me to discuss my results and I ended up recieving a call from an out of hours practitioner. The lady I spoke to was incredibly transphobic asking inappropriate questions and in general being incredibly rude. I was told my haemoglobin was critically high and I needed to stop taking testosterone immediately or I could have "a stroke tomorrow or over the weekend" The information she gave to me was purely false and based off of transphobia. All of my results were in the normal male range which is to be expected. The Dr told me that this didn't matter because I was "female". Despite my best efforts to explain she would not listen to me. I am fortunate that I am aware enough to know that what she told me was wrong ( a complaint has been raised against her by both my normal GP who was horrified when they listened to the call and by myself) PLEASE make sure you know the range your results should be in. No doctor should ever be able to scare someone out of hormones because of their own misinformation and prejudice. Do not let someone like this get away with it and advocate for yourself if they ever try to. Okay thanks for reading and stay safe

i am so close to just detransitioning. i’m 16 atm. is there anything at all i can do to help alleviate gender dysphoria? anything at all? i already bind, have short hair, grow out hair etc. it doesn’t help. i crave a medical change but at the rate things are going that isn’t gonna happen. please help.

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im lucky enough to (barely) afford going private with medically transitioning (ftm, 18) since I don't want to wait years to get on t. should I still get on NHS waiting lists, or should I just hope that my gp agrees to shared care? I don't have much money so if I need to buy the private prescriptions I don't know how secure my treatment will be. any advice is very welcome ;-;

The NHS has currently put out a public consultation for anyone to participate in. What is different to usual is that this is actually visible to the public who can vote for ones they find of particular relevance to them. Currently the most popular suggestion is only at 1300 upvotes.

This could very much be a chance to get in front of the public eye a bit more and certainly make it a little more difficult for the health department to ignore us as if we are the top rated suggestion. Currently there are a few transgender healthcare suggestions listed but if we could rally around 1 or 2 I think we could have good success in raising points. Especially regarding the dreaded cass review.

The suggestions I think are the most well written are:

Informed consent model for adult transgender healthcare

Have an inquiry into the Cass Report being biased

not wanting to leave this reddit as it's been very helpful for me but the overwhelming bad news and triggering content around trans people with the nhs and politics is really affecting me mentally. im new ish so reddit so im unsure of how to disable these negative posts from coming up for me.

Im in the UK and im waiting for dates in April-July to come out from the clinic to book my surgery, i was wondering if anyone knows my surgeon Dr. loannis Ntanos and the experience that had/ how the surgery went Another advice is welcome! (Repost for r/topsurgery

Did you inform your car insurance company about your surgery before or after GRS? And did you have any problems after telling them, or failing to tell them?

Obviously I will be following the advice from the surgery team not to drive until after the follow up appointment 10-12 weeks later. (And I’m aware that if I still can’t drive after 12 weeks I HAVE to tell DVLA).

I've submitted my name change to Companies House three times now.

Well, actually I've submitted it four times... I changed my name in October last year to a gender-neutral first name, femme middle name, then took parts of my old name as the remainder. The change went through with no problems.

This time round, though. OMG...

Printed and filled in my CH01 form. Sent it off.

A few weeks later it was sent back rejected because I hadn't ticked a box to confirm there was no change to my address. It is abundantly clear what I am trying to achieve because I had put a line through the section for change of address.

But fair enough... I ticked the box they asked for and sent it off again.

A few weeks later it was sent back rejected because I had ticked the box to confirm there was no change to my address. They asked me to delete that box and resubmit.

At this point I'm beginning to wonder if there's transphobia involved. I know we shouldn't attribute to malice what could be attributed to incompetence... but y'know?

Anyway... I discovered I could make the changes online using webfiling.

So I filled in the details... it clearly states "you can't use this form to appoint a new director you can only use it to change details"... okay... that's me. Good. I fill in the new details and hit submit...

It comes back today, rejected: "It looks like you are trying to appoint a new director."

My new name is: the female version of my old first name (George to Georgia), then THE SAME MIDDLE NAME because I had already picked a femme middle name, my other middle name deleted, then a new surname.

Again, to any right-minded, sane, half-intelligent human being this is the SAME PERSON who has undergone a gender change.

I'm really not sure what they want from me.

They also had the gall to chastise me for not updating these details within 14 days of my change of name.

I know it's a little bit of a stretch because it's a new surname (though I'm sure company directors get married occasionally? or change their surname for other reasons...)

I'm really not sure what to do. There's no space for a cover note on the online form.

I might try posting the original form back with copies of both of their letters and a cover letter asking them to tell me exactly what to fill in each box of the CH01 form.

Fucking asswipes. (sorry... just need to vent... most of my name changes have gone so smoothly).

And the weird thing is, this one doesn't ask for any proof of the change either. So it's totally insecure in that it takes my word for it, but also totally secure in that it seems impossible to actually change my name.

On the off-chance... anyone else had luck changing their name to an alternate gender with a CH01 or webfiling? How much cash did you have to put in the envelope to incentivise the clerk? 😜

Will it surprise you if I say that in the entire report, there isn't even a single mention related to Gender Dysphoria, nor Gender Incongruence, in fact the word gender is nowhere to be found. State of Healthcare

I don't even know where to begin commenting on the report. It's crystal clear that for the NHS we simply don't exist.

is anyone else experiencing a catastrophic drop in trust of the nhs?

what i have experienced is extreme and i am basically my own doctor, which i know is very bad, but i feel such anger and fury when dealing with the nhs at all levels that i cannot be a patient to them any more. i simply don't feel the nhs cares in the slightest.

potentially this is a disastrous situation.

The appointment of Simon Wessely and also the linking study they are doing where they are grabbing data from not only the GICs but also any outpatient and hospital appointments, drug clinics- they want to fish for any evidence of comorbid attention seeking like autism diagnosis, me/CFS, ocd or general hipochondria.

Then they can say there is no such a thing as gender identity or gender dysphoria it's something you made up in your head because of your drug, health anxiety attention seeking /OCD and being on the internet too much.

Anyway this is how it's looking to go based on what they are doing do far and general bits and bobs of segm writing and history of the main researcher.

Just wondering if anyone had heard of them or had experience with them. Was interested in seeing some of their work and their Instagram has no post of op images.

https://www.instagram.com/wetransform.identite?igsh=Z3p4MHQ3cGZ6cDly

I need to book an appointment with my GP, and the practice I use has an online form you fill in to to do so. One of the things on the form is "What is your sex? (As recorded on your medical record)" woth the options of Male, Female, and Other.

Now earlier this year I requested the NHS change my gender marker to female on my NHS record and they provided me wirh a new NHS number. But I don't know if my sex is still recorded someone on my medical record, and so I don't know what answer I should give to this.

Before I got my new NHS number I would click male, it would make me uncomfortable every time, but I knew that's what it said on my medical record.

I don't want to tick male to then find out that their wording was incorrect and birth sex isn't recorded on medical record. But I don't want tick female and find out that their wording is correct and that birth sec is recorded on medical record.

Tldr Does anyone know whether birth sex is recorded on medical record? And whether or not I should be clicking Male or Female here? (Just to clarify, that I am a trans woman, amab, and have recieved a new NHs number to correct gender marker)

He's been functionally doxxing and stalking a trans person after destroying their(? idk if they're NB or transfem) phone at a recent event.

Obviously i'm not saying to post their information here, but if anyone does know them, can you confirm they're doing okay?

The kind of harassment Linehan engages in nowadays is criminal, and hopefully he'll face consequences for doing it so publicly, but that won't un-target his victims from TERF abuse :/

Hi, I’m a trans woman and I see people talking about DIY on here all the time and encouraging people to use it if they can’t get care from the NHS but I was just wondering where I can actually get it from since the only links that I ever see are mostly based around bitcoin rather than conventional currency and like most people, I have no understanding of how crypto works nor the ability to actually get it, let alone use it even if I did have it.

I've been on DIY from December, went on Monothereapy Valerate every 6 days took me a while to get the correct dose and eventually was between 6 and 7mg, had very positive physical changes and generally felt better in every way. Cut to september I went to my new NHS plan per nottingham, ORAL 3mg morning 4mg night and decapetpyl injections every 12 weeks.

I needed bloods doing so threw in some hormones in anyway, its been 6 weeks and they're as below.
I feel flat, stagnated in physical changes and lost what to do.

Part of me wants to go back onto DIY because i hate the idea of stagnating and feeling shit whilst waitng on NCTH indefineftly. Or do i just increase my oral doses but if so not sure by how much.

My other hormone panel bloods are dire too, LH none existent, FSH went out for milk and cigarettes, SBHG dropped off the side of the earth and prolactin back to my baseline prehrt.

17-Beta Oestradiol:
April (on 8mg EV DIY): 904pmol/L - cut down to 6mg
September (on 6mg EV DIY): 294pmol/L pre nhs treatment starting
October (on 7mg NHS PLAN): 180pmol/L

Testosterone:
April (on 8mg EV DIY): 0.8
September (on 6mg EV DIY): 0.7
October (on 7mg NHS PLAN):  0.7

Any adivce i'll welcome :3

If anyone else is with the Tavistock what's the current time between them receiving your bloodwork and them reviewing it?

My first bloods were sent off in June and reviewed fairly quickly (10 days )in that the endo sent me an email back saying to just get a repeat test in three months with my gp only just beinng sent the letter foe this by their admin team.

The second set drawn and sent over in September has still not been reviewed by their endo team and when I email over all I get back is the generic response of its gone to the clinical team for review, however, there is a backlog for this.

The existence of this backlog coupled with the Tavistock moving building makes me wonder if they've had an exodus of clinical staff due to the move. Or are reluctant to do any work until they settle into their new building incase policy changes.

What's everyone else's response time from them like?

This it the new treatment plan. I'm beyond outraged reading this. From the NHS website Treatment for youths with gender dysphoria.

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