What You Were Getting Wasn't 'Healthcare'...

Transgender patients say they have been left "devastated" by a Nottinghamshire GP practice's decision to stop providing treatment enabling them to transition. Jubilee Park Medical Partnership, which runs practices in Carlton and Lowdham, announced it would stop prescribing transgender healthcare to patients, including those currently on hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The move has prompted anger from transgender patients and the wider community, with dozens of people attending a protest organised by Nottingham Against Transphobia outside Park House Medical Centre in Carlton on Tuesday, December 31.

Dozens! Wow! I guess there was something better on TV that day. 

Among the crowd were patients who said the withdrawal of treatment would have "crippling" consequences. "I've been so stressed and upset about how I'm going to access healthcare," said Samathy Barratt, 29, who has been receiving oestrogen and testosterone blockers from the practice.

"If I weren't to receive testosterone blocking meds I would experience a reversal of the transitioning effects.

"That would be devastating for my mental health to be forced to detransition. I'm lucky I haven't had any surgery, if I had there would be significant health risks.

"I'm particularly worried about that for other patients."

Misery loves company. Of course you want more people like you around, or you'd feel like a freak, wouldn't you?

"Jubilee Park Medical Partnership continues to be very supportive of our transgender patients," said a spokesperson. "This work is more appropriately provided by a specialist as it is beyond the clinical expertise and knowledge of the GPs to provide this service in the way that it should be provided."

The only thing that needs to be provided is mental heath care. That's the real issue here.