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trans pol, GICs, UK 

Going through a uk trans survey and

"Have you ever tried to access any gender affirming medical services?"

I mean, I'm assuming they mean GICs (& private doctors)

but I would not call GICs 'gender affirming' by any stretch (in social role or individual-level function/experience)

re: trans pol, GICs, UK 

Herein lies the reason spent my late teens reading a tonne of Kafka/Camus/Foucault

"Oh! This. This is exactly what I'm experiencing, yes. Well described."

Franz Kafka's Gender Affirmation Castle

UK trans pol, trans survey ramblings 

There's a list of great-sounding services and "Have you ever accessed these?"

If you tick "want to, but haven't" the only options are "I'm on a waiting list" or "other"

Like, point me to the waiting list of a GIC that provides half those things! I'll jump on it. As far as I was told, they weren't even available as options unless you go private (and yknow, £££££).

(I do wonder what proportion of people writing this have actually been through the NHS gender system. It feels written by well-intentioned cis folks, but maybe I'm wrong on that)

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