Relax, bryony,
and do some reading. The "medical orthodoxy" over here is a few blocks ahead. The gender team at the hospital of the university of Ghent have given their patients lists of NBE herbs and foods before hormones for at least ten years.
Prof. dr. Peggy Cohen-Kettenis spoke her inaugural oration in February, after having headed the gender team of the medical center of the Free University of Amsterdam for years. The gender team there have always been pioneers, and she is a big deal: among others, she is the president of the committee for the gender section in the DSM-V, to be issued in 2013. The new name is going to be "gender incongruence", which is already a lot better than the stigma of a disorder.
She advocates partial transitions, says that relieving anxiety is one of the central issues, abolished the compulsory Real Life Experience and the obligation to present in the chosen gender, called the Dutch legal requirement of chemical castration "obsolete", and defends the use of experimental treatments before they are recognized as "evidence based". What more could you want?
Moreover, under the UK Gender Recognition Act 2004, you have the right to get a gender recognition certificate on the basis of a diagnosis from another country. With the GRC, the NHS cannot stop you getting treatment in another country, and has to help you get the financial support for it.
Of all the wishes you mentioned in the above post, there isn't one that is not within reach for you today. So get off that soap box and put the energy in the paperwork.
and do some reading. The "medical orthodoxy" over here is a few blocks ahead. The gender team at the hospital of the university of Ghent have given their patients lists of NBE herbs and foods before hormones for at least ten years.
Prof. dr. Peggy Cohen-Kettenis spoke her inaugural oration in February, after having headed the gender team of the medical center of the Free University of Amsterdam for years. The gender team there have always been pioneers, and she is a big deal: among others, she is the president of the committee for the gender section in the DSM-V, to be issued in 2013. The new name is going to be "gender incongruence", which is already a lot better than the stigma of a disorder.
She advocates partial transitions, says that relieving anxiety is one of the central issues, abolished the compulsory Real Life Experience and the obligation to present in the chosen gender, called the Dutch legal requirement of chemical castration "obsolete", and defends the use of experimental treatments before they are recognized as "evidence based". What more could you want?
Moreover, under the UK Gender Recognition Act 2004, you have the right to get a gender recognition certificate on the basis of a diagnosis from another country. With the GRC, the NHS cannot stop you getting treatment in another country, and has to help you get the financial support for it.
Of all the wishes you mentioned in the above post, there isn't one that is not within reach for you today. So get off that soap box and put the energy in the paperwork.