Quote from: Jessica_K on Yesterday at 02:57:26 PMHere in the UK, GP's are useless for anything transgender orientated. "We are not trained to administer hormones or to evaluate bloods" so will not do either. The fact they administer hormones to cis women and know exactly what good hormone blood levels are in cis women says it all.
I have a female GP that I choose thinking from her CV would good, but she is just like all the rest.
I hope in your country or state GP's are better than here.
Jessica xxx
My GP in the UK was amazing.. not totally accepting, we had a LONG conversation about his views on transgender people and their rights and he stated he would 'Never administer drugs of any kind to a child to ease gender dysphoria'. However for me, he was supportive and wrote of my prescriptions without a murmur, liaised with the private hospital and surgeon who did my surgery and was supportive on my post-op recovery.
I am sorry Jessica if you have a bad one.. but you know what, you can change your GP really easy.. I did not just happen to have this guy as a GP.. I had that transgender conversation BEFORE I joined his surgery.. The NHS has a lot of problems. It has some very bad wait times for gender surgery and gender confirmative care on the whole, but it does exist and it is accessesable to ALL.. in the USA you need insurance, that costs money and in most cases it is a lot of money. If you are working a dead end job, no insurance the chances of you even getting hormones are zero.. The chances of you being able to afford your consultations are zero.
I chose to pay for my surgery, I wanted it faster than the NHS could muster it up.. a friend of mine, however went the NHS route, did the GHC and the years of wait.. she had her surgery 3 months before me in the same hospital, with the same surgeon, with the same level of service.. it cost, on the door, nothing to them and close to £20,000 for me. The only difference was 3 or 4 years. WHilst that is too long, it being available to everyone is still something to be proud of and demands to make the NHS better are all called for - But classing it all as 'useless' or worse the people that work hard in this service as 'useless' is harsh