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[sebastienne]

Those of you who've never had to convince a doctor that you were pretty/girly/happy enough to deserve treatment (hint: this'll be most of you), please take a moment to be thankful for that fact?

Thanks.

Comments

[queerpup.livejournal.com]

How about "manly" enough?

Ugh. Medics shouldn't be gatekeepers, and certainly not base their treatment on gender assumptions.

[ex-leighwoos982.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

[deathbyshinies.livejournal.com]

*pets*

And you're right, and it's horrible, and I'm so sorry.

[ex-leighwoos982.livejournal.com]

*gasp* you're a werewoof! Werewoofs are awesome!

[deathbyshinies.livejournal.com]

SHHHH! Keep it quiet, or everyone'll be at me to bite them!

[ex-leighwoos982.livejournal.com]

Okie. I'll only tell my Monkey. Monkey likes werewoofs: http://monkeyandleigh.blogspot.com/2005/10/channel-hopping-to-make-me-feel-less.html

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

*hugs you both via medium of interweb*

(Sorry, I now feel bad for not asking after Ashley at the library, because my thought process then was that you wanted to concentrate on work...I do care, obv. /inept)

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

i've done finals. i know what it's like. as a result, you essentially have a infinite supply of emma-understanding and -love that will transcend anything you do because of exams. xXx

[ktroo85.livejournal.com]

*hugs* My love to both of you xxx

[otterylexa.livejournal.com]

*hugs* to both of you.

I do, I do.

[mi-guida.livejournal.com]

Oh, hon... *hugs* for both of you. I'm sorry I can't do more.

[mejoff.livejournal.com]

What?
(confused, but making limited assumptions/educated guesses leading to outrage)

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

no other diagnosis except gender dysphoria requires you to "prove your worthiness" for treatment. A's been doing just that in London today & the very concept of what was going on was getting to me a bit this morning.

[half-of-monty.livejournal.com]

Gghhghgh.

So did she `pass'?

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Until another appt in 6 months' time, yes. It's rather a torturous process. Already being on hormones from Oxfordshire PCT helps an awful lot, though.

[vass]

*hugs*
and
*RAGE*

[the-whybird.livejournal.com]

Some silver linings (because finding silver linings is what I do when I don't know enough about what somebody's situation's like to be able to say anything meaningfully helpful):

1. We live in an age where gender reassignment surgery exists. For most of history, this hasn't been the case.

2. We live in a country where -- despite the awful hoops that sugar_and_space and others have had to jump through -- gender dysphoria (is that the right term?) is correctly recognised by experts as a medical condition, and not a psychological problem. (If it wasn't, and the establishment really believed that it was a psychological problem, then surgery just flat-out wouldn't be available on the NHS.) Yes, right now they're bloody awful at being as sensitive as they ought to be. Yes, they still act as a barrier to treatment. But treatment does exist and is, at least theoretically, available for free, and this, to me, is a sign that Things Are Going In The Right Direction.

[frightful-elk.livejournal.com]

Actually they still think it's a psychological problem, and yet they don't seem to think it's funny that the cure, as it were, lies in changing the body to fit the mind.