Hey folks

We all know how shite the Cass Review was/is, and how it's been universally discredited and rejected

Alas, NHS England has now set its gaze firmly on a review of adult trans+ healthcare services 😞

We would love to believe that this is being done in good faith, but NHS England has never been on the side of trans people.¹ As such, we believe that the best we can realistically hope for at this stage is damage limitation

To this end, we wish to highlight that the page linked above links to a Adult Gender Services Review survey, which is open to:

• current, and recent, patients who have been seen at one, or more, of the [Gender Dysphoria Clinics] in the past five years
• family and friends of patients who have used services in the past five years
• current staff members, and those who have worked at one, or more, of the centres in the past five years

Even if it doesn't change a thing, we should make our voices heard loudly and defiantly ✊

So let's go all out and tell them what we actually want:

1. Depathologisation.
2. Desegregation.
3. Informed consent.

We don't want better gender clinics: we want them to be dismantled entirely, in favour of desegregated healthcare.

We don't want to be forced to get a formal medical diagnosis of being trans to access basic GAHT / HRT, to have the right to consent to gender-affirming surgeries, or to change our legal gender.

We want world leading gender-affirming healthcare, beyond the nonsense, unscientific biases that still exist even in WPATH SOC8.

They don't want to offer us this, and will do everything in their power to ignore us, but that doesn't mean that our voices shouldn't be heard.

Maybe trans liberation won't come today, but we need to fight for it at every stage

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¹ You can read all about the awful history of trans healthcare provided by NHS England in The Transgender Issue: An Argument For Justice by Shon Faye.

The USA and Canada have formed the most politically stable part of the planet for the better part of two centuries now, and it seems like it's gonna come crumbling down within the decade. What the fuck.

If you think Ashten is bad, wait until you hear about Asheleven!