I'm just gonna copy and paste a rant from tumblr here, this is ridiculous. I guess re: fuck the nhs.
my country is ridiculous. tell me why my doctor has to ask me the most unscientific, hypothetical and pointless questions for me to be refered to get a double masectomy? its so telling that the government hates trans people like, not to say what everyone already knows but i genuinely wonder if i would even be on testosterone if it wasnt for the fact that my doctor is a very normal guy who actually knows real trans people.
questions like, what will you do if you regret having top surgery? and im made to give so many reasons for why i should have it like, i had to PROVE that i needed it with reasons like how it would actually benefit my life, why i should have top surgery over just binding, i cant even remember the other stuff but CHRIST
and my doctor tells me that the government want to open a service up for detransitioners, that is less than 0.005% of the population. while you have trans people waiting years and being forgotten and dying because of how long the waiting times are. i didnt even know this was a thing until just now.
he told me about a survey or something that happened last year trying to prove how many trans people regret surgery and how many people detransition. even cherrypicking their results so hard they got no actual proof that trans people are regretting being trans on the mass.
i tell him what city i want to be refered to (london) and he tells me the one i chose are extremely strict about BMI and mental health history and i just think it fuckings sucks because there is NOWHERE in my country you can get top surgery and london is the easiest place for people here to get to for surgery. what are people even meant to do if that isnt an option for them?
like not to rant on main but this pissed me off so badly i hate it here on earth sometimes
thats it. Ive been almost yelling complaining about this. I guess i dont even know what to do about getting mental health help now since its going to fuck up my ability to start top surgery. I hate that i feel to afraid to tell my gender service doctors about this because i dont want to fuck this up, i dont even know what id do if i did. so stupid, i hate this place