UK gender clinics trying to cut back on operations?

[lilacwoman]

I have seen soem posts that make me wonder if the UK's gender clinci haven't had ijstructions ot reduce the number and costs of operations they agree on by imposing petty restriction designed to make aperson so angry they can be labelled 'mentally unstable' and then denied treatmnet?
To the shrinks in charge of the Clincs angry =crazy so if a TS truns upa nd is confronted with some nonsense and gets angry then they can be labelled unstable and treatment can be withdrawn indefinitely.
This has happened with me and now I see another person at another GIC saying the same thing.
I wonder if this is a sinister backdoor way of cutting the number of operations done each year.
It is entirely possible that the hometown health service has told the central GICs to not progress that town's TS in order to save money.  It needs investigating

[rejennyrated]

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings to you but this is hardly a new strategy.

I've been post-op since the early 1980's and they were pulling this sort of stupid stunt back then. It's depressing that we are still no further on and that so many people within the trans community don't seem to realise that this is precisely why we should all reject the outdated and barbaric Benjamin rules and demand that GID is removed from the DSM and indeed all psychiatric manuals.

Being Trans, as I have said elsewhere, is not a mental disorder - it is a state of being which sometimes requires medical help to alleviate suffering. Beyond certifying that the patient is not suffering from a proper psychiatric disorder there should be NO psychiatrists involved in this at all.

Your sad story is one reason why I spent literally every penny I had at the time and went privately. The problem with government funded medicine is that it puts the doctor in the position of a servant of the state instead of being the servant of YOU the paying customer. So of course it means that your treatment is at the whim of a political elite and may, indeed not always proceed in the way which is in your best interests. Rather it will be performed in the way that is perceived to best serve the state, or indeed the career path of the particular doctor in question.

We all know, for example, that back in the 80's there were certain UK clinics who were performing experiments in "non surgical management techniques" without any consent from the patients who were involved in them. As one doctor said to me off the record at a medical fraternity party that we were both at "well we didn't need to get their consent because they were all deemed mentally ill." He didn't realise I was post-op Trans myself because I had come as the close personal friend of one of his colleagues. (no names no pack-drill)

So yes - it probably still does need investigating. But sadly I don't think it's going to change.

[Alicia91]

Money is a powerful tool of corruption. Once someone is in a state that gives them money and power, they'll do anything to get more and lose as little as possible. I do backbreaking manual labor for nine bucks an hour, and almost twenty percent is taken from my pay check. This is a world where the rich get richer. It's almost enough to make one steal for the money.