This is certainly a very sad state of affairs.
A clinician with insufficient resources will eventually be reduced to robbing peter to pay Paul. In that situation every training we have demands we triage and treat the most urgent case first. Now unfortunately when you are trans and up against someone with an immediately life threatening condition this is not going to go well for you.
It is true that your treatment is necessary because without it your quality of life is poor. Unfortunately for someone with a myocardial infarction the bottom line is if they are not treated in a cath lab within sixty to ninety minutes they will probably die.
The bottom line is that those two patients should never be pitted against each other for resources, but in the current political climate where the USA has poisoned many British minds against social medicine the right wing politicians that are currently running the UK are wasting no opportunity to do precisely that.
They are keeping the service starved of resources so that those two patients, or others very like them are often in competition for resources, and thus treatments for conditions which are not immediately life threatening are being delayed.
I don't think anyone in the health service thinks this is satisfactory, but with the Great British Public voting for more austerity this is sadly what you get!
TLDR Cameron's austerity Britain is not a good place to be Old, Trans, Unemployed, Homeless, Disabled or indeed anything which depends on social resources because at least for the next five years the system is increasingly going to take great delight in kicking you when you are down. So if you are any of the aforementioned things you'd better have the resources to pay your own way or the outlook is pretty grim.
