'We’re not trusted to make the decisions of our own bodies'
As Trans Awareness Week comes to a close and the Gender Recognition Reform Bill is making its way through the parliament, three trans women have shared their experiences and struggles trying to access basic healthcare, as they called for a progressive shift in the way it’s delivered across the country.
The 47-year-old said: “I was presenting as me but I hadn’t gone to a GIC or anything, so obviously I wasn’t on any hormones or anything.“It was very much a case of feeling like nothing was moving forward, which was quite demoralising and quite scary.” An issue with testosterone blockers and frustration with how slow the clinic was to do “something as very basic as send a letter” to allow her GP to change prescription would ultimately lead her to buying hormones online again.“Yes you’re paying money for it, but we don’t need to ask an old man behind the desk, ‘can we do what we want with our own bodies?’” she added.
Douglas has little faith in the current system, which she says was “set up to slow down the process and question trans people”. “The point I’m at now is that I think I’ve got a better chance of campaigning for reform and getting access to it through that, I think reform will come before I reach the top of the waiting list and that’s the position that we’re in,” Gomersall said.
“Only trans people have to go through the whole rigmarole of the psychiatric assessments and confirming for years as to whether or not we actually want it. We’re not trusted to make the decisions of our own bodies, where people who aren’t trans always are.”
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