Updated Waiting Times and Patient Populations for UK Gender Identity Services

[kira21 ♡♡♡]

Wait for GIC is the same for ftm. Wait for surgery is, according to information I read which was I believe a FOIA request response, 'meeting the 18 week target'.

[mfox]

Wait for GIC is the same for ftm. Wait for surgery is, according to information I read which was I believe a FOIA request response, 'meeting the 18 week target'.

A friend of mine who was referred for GCS surgery on the NHS in August just got a letter saying the wait for surgery is 18 months.  However she is a smoker and hasn't quit yet (which is required I think).  Maybe it depends on your circumstances?

[cindianna_jones]

I think that the entire world is still reeling from the 2009 financial collapse that originated in my country. Budget cutting is en vogue everywhere. And besides, I had to walk 2 miles uphill in the snow to school and back.

Cindi

[Deborah]

Only two miles?  You were the lucky one.


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[Kylo]

I would guess that chest surgery is typically just a quicker and simpler operation than vaginoplasty operations which require surgeons who specialize in that particular field, and there are probably less of those than surgeons who do mastectomies and top surgeries. I think it's just a rarer procedure done in general outside of private channels, than chest surgeries of various kinds so there will be less dedicated surgeons available. Maybe that is why wait time are shorter for those operations. I'd expect phalloplasty to be more in line with the vaginoplasty waits though.