I bet the little amongus guys taste delicious I bet you could crunch like five of them in your mouth at once I bet the suits like a candy coating I bet there’s chocolate inside like an Eminem
transitioning in the uk. it will be alright
this will be a separate post containing medical transition advice for people in the uk.
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was response to this xxx but i realised it might make it a little too long
i will say the jokes specifically aimed like this i do find particularly performative and sad/depressing. and i do eye roll at “terf island” getting incorporated into, i dont know, meme speak. please always keep in mind when you are getting too overzealous about larping defeating an enemy when the people affected arent benefitting from it at all. its very gay. well whatever.
anyways i need to add this so maybe anyone out there doesnt lose hope, it is absolutely not impossible. i see this kind of stuff said a lot to express how bad it can be in the uk and i worry how many trans people here without much knowledge see it and give up / get suicidal.
these additions are telling the worst of it and giving statistics on the higher side of it for an emphasising effect, and while the examples they give can be very true, it absolutely doesnt have to go like this for you. not meant to be a “someone always has it worse” point but i always keep in mind even for europe the uk’s gender clinic system is better than many let alone the rest of the world. ive heard worse and similar stories from friends in places like poland and belgium, i dont know, it helps me at least. although it is true for europe and most of the world the uks nhs waiting times are appallingly high. you hear a lot from the uk situation because it is english speaking.
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if you want my opinion of how you can get it in a fairly quick manner, im going to be honest, in very unpopulated parts of the uk you might be able to use nhs but mostly, you probably need to go with private right now. but this doesnt have to be the nightmare you might think it might be. private services like gendercare, yourgp and gender gp (etc) are fairly affordable and typically the whole process is over in under two / one and a half years. this isnt also meant to be some shill for the private clinics because i know how they can behave badly and i wish it didnt have to be this way, but its just usually the best option for this situation.
places like https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/ helped me a lot. youre going to want to have local people who you can ask specifics to about their experience / what to do. a lot of people here are well through transition and you will likely get a lot of responses to specific questions you may have. its a great place to start and refer back to during the process.
this applies to anyone else in the world trying to medically transition, find local online / offline communities and ask them.
im going to talk about my personal experience with one of the ones mentioned but ill be brief. id say i started the process through email in early 2020. after some months i got an initial session which was the usual quite outdated and invasive kind of, questioning session. but you will be fine, maybe ask the reddit or etc for tips. some time after that i was asked to perform a blood test with the nhs, i got a letter from one of their endocrinologists so the nhs was be obliged to carry it out. after i got the results, after some period of months, i had a session with the endocrinologist. and they worked out a prescription for me. you should be good after this. this whole process took around one and a half years with a prescription being set up in mid 2021.
in total this probably cost me around £600 from session costs and prescriptions. i understand this is still a lot for some and im sorry, i would advise asking for donations online if you can but that can still be hard to achieve i understand.
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this is also only unfortunately to do with the hrt process as with surgeries, you will also have to go private at an expensive cost or long nhs waiting lists. once again i may direct you to the reddit or other places like it. i dont feel knowledgeable enough about that process to tell people about the best ways to get it.
take care
got some new bluetooth earbuds and was listening to squarepusher. i kept nearly going out of range but carried on enjoying it because i thought it was part of the song
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