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Navigating Healthcare Challenges for the Trans Community
The chapter delves into the struggles faced by the trans community in accessing timely and appropriate healthcare, discussing the term 'gender dysphoria' and its impact on care segregation. Speakers highlight the extensive waiting times for gender identity clinic appointments within the NHS, leading to frustration and anger towards the system's failures. It also addresses the resistance of medical institutions, like the Royal College of GPs, towards providing gender-affirming care, influenced by politics rather than medical evidence.
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