Last night I was looking to help a friend who has had some problems getting her GP to prescribe HRT.

I happen to know that the department of health guidelines say very clearly that once there is a firm diagnosis HRT should be provided on demand. Unfortunately some PCTs and GPs don't seem to know this.

So I did a little hunt on the department of health website and I came up with these two gems. Not only do they eloquently silence all those doctors who want to be difficult, but better yet the documents talk about informed consent. It turns out that the NHS is theoretically willing to provide HRT on this basis - which at one stroke removes all the faffing about that some GIC's routinely put their clients through.

I would strongly advise anyone from the UK to download and read both these documents. One is aimed at the doctors, the other at the patient - the one for the GP's is very revealing, and well worth reading. It is dynamite.  It also give strong statements to the effect that doctors MUST NOT either deny patients treatment for their transgender condition, nor must they continue to call you by your old name and gender once you have asked them not to. Any doctor failing to comply is ignoring a direct instruction from the department of health.

You can find the documents here:

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_084919

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_089941

I hope these will help anyone from the UK who is struggling to get appropriate treatment.

Thank you Jenny.

These will be useful to so many people.

After skimming them, maybe we can use them with our doctors, therapists, Insurance companies and maybe even our idiot government.

The thought occured to me as well Janet. Some of the arguments supporting anti-discrimination measures are pretty compelling. Not exactly new, but given they've been written into a government document, it lends them enormous and justifiable creadance.

Two brilliant documents.  Absolutely fascinating reading.  There is so much ammunition in those documents.

Thanks Rejennyrated.

Kind regards
Sarah B

Jenny = amazing