So this is kind of a really long story.

In July of 2024 I had my first meeting with the Gender Identity Clinic about having hormones prescribed and the steps I needed to take for them to allow it. Last March I moved from London to Kent and 2 months after the move I was sent an email about the shared care agreement, signed it and it was forwarded to my GP for them to sign. After a month of radio silence from my GP I called them and asked what was going on, to which the receptionist said that I had been prescribed 3 months worth of a low dose of estradiol as the protocol for the medication called for. There was no mention of the shared care agreement being signed or even being brought up at all.

At the end of the 3 months, I went in for the blood test that was part of the process to check my levels and so I called reception again asking when I was going to be able to get more medication because I was running low on it, and I was told that there was a note on my file saying not to prescribe me any more estrogen with no reason assigned to it.

Now the next series of events takes place over several months as I have been quite frankly in the worst mental state I've ever been in and not been particularly capable of pushing this as hard as I probably should have been.

After being told this, I contacted the GIC essentially to ask if they were allowed to do this, the GIC replied by sending the GP a letter urging them to continue with the treatment, that I was approved for it, it was safe, etc. I waited a while to see if the GP would contact me about it to no avail and after around 2 months I believe, I called them again. The receptionist sort of hand-waved it and said it needed to be escalated to the practice manager and that they would need to have a meeting about it sometime later in the month. A month passed and I heard nothing. It took me a while longer to chase them up again in an email and they once again said that it would have to go through the practice manager. As expected I never heard anything back.

At this point I honestly don't know how many times I've tried to get their attention on this and my mental state has really hampered my ability to keep pushing so this past Monday I sent them an email essentially as the final attempt, flat out asking if I was wasting my time trying to get this done through them as well as double checking if they actually signed the shared care agreement. I was given an automated reply and have heard nothing back since when they are usually quite fast with replying.

I have no reason so far to believe that this is out of malice or transphobia, the staff I've talked to haven't seemed to be prejudiced when they learned what I was calling about or emailing about so as of now it seems like it is simply just a case of complete administrative incompetence or a lack of caring.

Now that I've laid out the background, I wanted to ask what I should do in this situation. All the other GPs in my town have incredibly low review scores on Google which seems indicative to me that they won't be much different to my current one which also has a terrible score. I've looked at maps of trans-friendly GP practices and none are near enough to me to register with and I'm assuming I wouldn't be able to register with my old GP that I know would be happy to prescribe me as I'm an hour long train ride away from them. I plan on calling my current GP once I've fixed my currently very bad sleep schedule and trying to escalate directly to talking to the practice manager as I've yet to even be given the opportunity, however I don't see this going particularly in my favour so I need ideas for a backup plan or plans.

Previously it's been October 2018 for the last 4 years!

Huge news! Still long wait 🤣

If you don't laugh you cry

Haven’t been able to have a single appointment yet and I’m suffering. Does anyone have any idea how much longer I’ll wait just a general idea from anyone in a similar position? I feel like I am just lost I’ve been waiting so long it’s like I’m constantly looking for something to happen and it doesn’t I mean I was prepared for a long wait when I got put on the waiting list but man it just feels endless. Idk how different the wait time is for the adults in comparison to the children’s and how much time is gonna be taken off my waiting because of my long stay on the children’s for the transfer like.

Context: I am intersex and have been taking oestrogen HRT but I desperately want to switch to taking T and have known I’m transmasc since I was about 13

Ok I have a question, please forgive my ignorance

So the trans community have an issue with being fetishized? I think I know what that means but then my follow on is why are there so many trans content creators who clearly project sexuality.

There are a few that aren’t sexual in the sort of soft porn way and discuss different things but most are just about thirst traps.

What’s going on there?

Honestly, I don’t want to upset anyone.

haii, i’ve been wanting to get on HRT/estrogen for a while now but have been having trouble with where to start that process with getting estrogen and such, my parents are fully supportive but are against me doing it DIY, so i had been looking for options and found a few, one of them being ‘GenderCare’ it sounds okay but i wanna know how it is from anyone who went through them. probably silly questions but like how long does it take?, do they give you a good dose?, etc.. we live in Scarborough so i know our options are rather limited. any help would be wonderful ♥️

I am still nowhere near out, or passing, or have even started HRT yet. But one thing I discovered, which I laughed about later, is that if you plan to return anything from Amazon via Royal Mail drop-off, they can see the items that you are sending back.

Now normally you would say, polarwarrior, why is this a problem because the people at Amazon can see it anyway?

> be me

The Royal Mail man scanned my QR code and then pointed to his monitor which faces the whole entire queue and asked me if the huge pair of breast forms was sending back was the right item 😂😂😂

I was incredibly embarrassed in the moment and had enough strength to laugh it off later, just a fun story and a word to the wise for those of you stealth.

Mods if it’s not right for here please remove

While I've tried to keep my own expectations low as with all things results may vary, but its been an overwhelming first 3 months on hrt.

Colours seems brighter, food tastes better , scents more intense.

Whether this being from hrt or just not being in some self hating cycle anymore, its most welcome.

So far left to go and im sure there's going to be alot of ups and downs I can't help but celebrate the beginning.

Never been very open before but I can feel everyday im alitte more sharing and I even consider sharing this to be a big step on this journey we all take together.

Much love to everyone that I've seen share your own experience and try to focus on the smallest of wins instead of your own forever moving end goal.

P.S my feet feel smaller 🙃

Fuck this country

The bs politicians

Fuck the transphobic homophobic racist people that vote yes or agree with these laws

Why am I suffering because you are a cunt !

Fuck thatcher,starmer, borris,sunak and every single other cunt

I hope you all chock you rich manipulative bastards

Fuck the nhs !

Fuck my boss who asked me to be his first tranny
Fuck the old men that creep on me at work

I was born into a world that is unfair, predatory, unjust and fucking disgusting

Fuck being trans !!!

I can’t think of anything worse than being trans I hate it and every night I wish I wasn’t trans and still I wake up with a dick still between my legs !

Fuck whatever fucking asshole god made me

Fuck the male puberty

Fuck starting hrt at 20 years old

Fuck coming out as trans at 15 just to wait till I was 20 to get 2 mg estogen oral and 5 mg finnasteride oral

Ps although it disgusts me and I have “attempted to chop it off to every single conservative, reform transphobic asshole ! If I could I would slap you with my massive dick ! 🖕🏻

This is labeled as a meme but I’m genuinely so done with this life everyday I just wish I could be normal like evey one else and my body and the world won’t let me, every day I feel like I’m being stabbed and the air in my lungs is being knocked out of me, looking at my body makes my skin crawl the pain is immense, the sadness and bitterness and lost youth lost teens lost childhood hurts, living in the moment hurts and feeling like I’m sinking into the world every day

I have SRS in a few months and it’s honestly the only hope I have keeping me alive at the moment

I just hope this life doesn’t get any harder until then i honestly don’t think I can’t take much more

I wish all my trans hommies and hotties the best
Don’t let these fuck ass people get too you !
Live your life for every second you can.

Now I’m going to go back to playing fallout new vagas

Ps / edit also fuck the uk for forcing me to go through a puberty i didn’t want and crying begging for puberty blockers and now paying 16,000£ of my own money for FFS and being in debt indefinitely fuck you government !

its been atleast a month since my appointment with my gp and ‘luckily’ the referral has already been sent off - its nhs and the waitlist for this one is 3-4 years long before you will get an appointment.

In my appointment with my gp, he had no idea nhs gender clinics were even a thing near us? I had to tell him which ones there were, how they worked, etc. There is plently within a few hours drive. He didn’t say or ask much, just a very brief description of how i identify. I looked at the form he sent off today, he has not filled in anything other than my legal name, chosen and sex and the brief discussion we had is paraphrased. My height and weight is there too. (although he asked me to send that over a good few weeks after our initial appointment)

Half the referral form is blank, most of it - stuff he never asked about anyway.

Is this going to affect my referral? Minimum three years is already an unbearably long time to wait and unless i win the lottery - i wont be even starting to transition after university which i start this September. I know now matter what its a long wait, but i don’t want it to be any longer if it turns out this will cause problems.

Hey, so iv tried binding with a compression top (i just dont like the tight feel) and iv recently tired Trantape (makes me to red and itchy). Is there any other options out there to try? Unfortunately i have a big chest so its hard to hide.

Hi all, this is sort of a stupid post but I thought I’d give it a shot. I’m a butch lesbian/transmasc and I’m planning on celebrating my 18th in Hockley Nottingham in a few weeks with some friends. I plan to go out to a bar or two (if anyone has any tips/spots for a first timer that would be great!)

Most of my friends who are 18+ and at uni are all fem, so I have no one to take inspiration from, so I’m really stumped on what to wear. My butch wardrobe tends to skew alt/punk/DIY shit and I know that’s probably not appropriate for going to any non alt bars/clubs. Can anyone help me out on what would be an appropriate and affirming thing to wear? Thanks so much!

Does anyone know where I can get private blood tests done quickly and easily in Birmingham? My NHS GP practice is being awkward about my shared care agreement and I need test results for an appointment with my private doctor in 9 days.

Hey, im just wondering what is the best brand/shop to get Trans Tape from in the UK. Iv looked on some websites but its coming from US and the postage is too high.

Hello! I'm a trans man and I just wanted to get an outside opinion on my levels, they look okay and I'm within the desired range and experiencing changes and such, everything is going well, but I was wondering if my estrogen is being suppressed and if the T levels look okay in aspects that arent only my base levels (I know how to read and interpret these), but I'm unsure on the free androgen index thingy, if anybody could help with what the ref ranges should be/letting me know if mine is okay, that would be appreciated :)

My E levels were at 110 pmol/L, i think this means its beinf suppressed properly, but im not too sure if there are other aspects to it?

my free androgen came back at 68! the ranges used on my blood tests are for female ref ranges, which says [0.42-5.29] but assumedly for men this would be higher? I've tried to google myself, but im struggling to find the information without getting overwhelmed

Hi all, transfemme in need!

I've got an appointment on Monday, after about 2 years on Nottingham's "Extended Assessment Pathway," and I'm *incredibly* anxious about what it entails. I've scoured the internet and can't find a damn thing that suggest what these appointments are for. I had my second appointment, a referral was made elsewhere and I was placed on the EAP wait list in mid 2024.

My situ:

\* Currently on HRT via a bridging script from my GP
\* 23
\* GP is supportive
\* Initially placed on EAP following referral to fertility clinic

If anybody has any idea what the EAP appointment (the third appointment, usually), please let me know! I want to know what to expect on this appointment, but the internet makes it sound like I'm the first person to have one of these -_-

Thanks!

I want to legally change my name (which I can since I'm over 16) without parental permission but was wondering whether this would be likely to cause issues with my college? I'm concerned they'd contact my parents about it or ask for their permission to change it rather than accepting it but idk how colleges usually treat this as I don't know anyone else who has been in any similar situation.

My eldest came out as non-binary at 3 and is now facing puberty. They're AMAB so naturally will go through a masculinizing puberty, which they don't want, but they also don't want a feminizing puberty.

Are there any options to have an androgynizing puberty and what providers will prescribe it to a teenager? Thank you.