On the National Health Service

[Butterfly]

On the National Health Service
Questioning Transphobia
By Nick Kiddle
01 March, 2010


http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/on-the-national-health-service/


I remember, too, the psychotherapist I saw through the NHS, who told me what an attractive woman I was and asked me why I felt the need to convert everyone to my "point of view" about the appropriate pronouns to use for a trans man. I remember the NHS psychiatrist who refused to even refer me to a gender clinic because I couldn't feign uncomplicated enthusiasm for surgery, who told me he couldn't ethically let me have testosterone because it would give me cancer, who characterised my response that he was quite comfortable leaving me to commit suicide through dysphoria as manipulative, and who explained that even if I scraped together enough money for a private consultation, the same restrictions would be in place.

[Ms Jessica]

Go Nick!!! Nothing but love!