I wish they would have a better place to go in Ont. Here in Alberta, it's way better -- except now, the government here has shut down GRS/SRS funding... Although the program here wasn't perfect, it's much better than any where else I've heard (also, more way more lenient). The only major down fall was that the wait lists to get into see the doc who could sign the forms got pretty long over time. There were two doctors, but one retired... so, we only had one doctor. Plus, we had a lot of people move to this province because the program was better over all compared to other places and they got funding for Brassard in Montreal. The doc, Dr. Warneke, is a pretty decent guy in his 70s and very understanding.... none of the BS that I hear of that goes on at CAMH, and it was fairly simple. The wait list to go see him ended up getting pretty long (up to a year) because of the amount of clients and the fact you have one guy doing everything. You then had to see him for a year before the GRS would be funding (provinces rules, not his -- so, yeah, some people would get frustrated if they already started RLE and had to still wait that year, but he had no control over that). On average, you'd see him 3-4 times during that year.
Dr. Warneke also continually would stand up for the trans and gay community, often be on TV talking about the importance of the issues and provided good research. In fact, he was instrumental some major human rights cases dealing with the GLBT community. Even recently, he's continuing to lobby/fight the government to get GRS funding back, and also find a decent doctor to replace him when he retires. I think he's almost 80 (maybe he is already in his 80s).
