Susan's Place Transgender Resources

As the title says :D I joined a new practice today after getting utterly fed up with how I've been treated at the other one. They have asked me to bring in some information about how to treat me because they aren't sure what to do.

Does anyone know where I can find some leaflets or something to print out that's aimed at doctors? I have loads of stuff for patients but nothing for GP's

Do you have a local Sexual Health service of any sort? They may have educational material for GPs.
Perhaps Caring Cross Hospital or whatever it is called might  have a website?

I'd start by asking your GP to find out whether they have any other trans patients at your surgery, because they may already have something in place but your GP might not know about it. My surgery already has several MtF patients (but I'm their first FtM) so my GP knew exactly where to send me.

I seem to recall that you're based in Blighty. In which case, I've found the GIRES (http://www.gires.org.uk (http://www.gires.org.uk)) website to be invaluable. In their 'Information for...' section there are some documents for medical professionals - the 'DoH publications' link includes an NHS document giving guidance to GPs on the care of gender variant people (http://www.gires.org.uk/assets/DOH-Assets/pdf/doh-guidelines-for-clinicians.pdf (http://www.gires.org.uk/assets/DOH-Assets/pdf/doh-guidelines-for-clinicians.pdf)). You can download it as a PDF and print it for your doctor - but in my opinion, they should be doing the research themselves; it's not your job to tell them how to treat you, other than letting them know your personal preferences such as pronouns etc. Also, there doesn't seem to be a nationalised procedure about what to do & where to send you so they'd need to check with the local authority or healthcare trust.

This is a pretty good place to start in my opinion.
http://transhealth.ucsf.edu/trans?page=protocol-evidence (http://transhealth.ucsf.edu/trans?page=protocol-evidence)

There are a lot of places out there to find information. If this site does not have what you are looking for, try doing a search.

Good luck.

Have a look on this site — scroll down until you see "working with transgender patients" and there are quite a few leaflets/PDFs directed at healthcare practicioners etc :)

http://www.healthwithpride.nhs.uk/miscellaneous/patients/ (http://www.healthwithpride.nhs.uk/miscellaneous/patients/)

Hope that's helpful!

Thank you all very much for the replies these should do nicely ;D

I did ask if they had treated any trans patients before and the answer was no. If this was a private doctor I would expect them to do the research themselves yes, but as it's the NHS I am very happy to lower the burden on free health care as much as I can. If all it takes to carry on my shots is a couple of print outs that's a vast improvement on how much of a hassle it was to get them started up  :P

Thank you for clarifying that for me. I was wondering why you would be doing the offices' research for them. There ate a number of medical journals that have published articles on this topic. You can do searches for titled, but you may not have access to the articles unless you can search from a university or are a student yourself. Can he narrow downwhat he wants to know? Uke health risks? Panels to order? Good luck. It seems that you will have a good relationship with this provider.

Well though I think I'd rather have a doctor who KNEW he doesn't know anything rather than one who thinks they know everything. (Not sure which category mine will be.) If they are young, you can educate them correctly. :)

--Jay J

I think it will mostly be the monitoring he needs to do that will be of most interest. I've already gotten through the hard part of getting diagnosed and prescribed.

Unfortunately the link that looked the most helpful on the NHS LGBT website is a broken link  :-\ I'm sure I can find it somewhere now I know the title of it though.

WPATH standards of care.