Author: TransActual Editor

Why should you complain about your GP?

Post author By TransActual Editor
Post date 17 March 2021

If you’re being messed about by your GP; if your GP is not taking you seriously or is failing to provide care you are entitled to; then our message is simple: complain! Complain loud. Complain long. And do not let go. Because trans healthcare in the UK is a disgrace. But medical practitioners get away with abysmal because people do not think it worth the while to complain.

Why? Because nothing ever happens to trans-hostile GPs. But do you know why nothing ever happens to them? Because no-one complains!

Tags complaints, General Medical Council, GP, jane fae, Transition Denied

Law Press Releases and Statements

Maternity and Other Ministerial Allowances Bill

Post author By TransActual Editor
Post date 24 February 2021

TransActual UK concerned as Lords debate removing legal protections from trans men and non-binary people “Why are some unelected sections of parliament now demanding that otherwise progressive legislation exclude minority […]

Tags Baroness Brinton, Chay Brown, Freddy McConnell, House of Lords, Maternity and Other Ministerial Allowances Act, pregnancy, Ruth Pearce, Sally Hines, trans men

Features Healthcare Lived Experience

My learning disabilities don’t make me any less trans, or any less of a man.

Post author By TransActual Editor
Post date 30 January 2021

Alex Lloyd, aged 36

But when I started to transition medically, it took a lot longer than other transgender people. When I asked for treatment, I had to wait a long time. They asked me loads of questions, like “you have a learning disability, so do you understand what transgender means?” Someone told me I couldn’t possibly be trans, because it was “too complicated for me.”

Tags Alex Lloyd, Easy Read documents, learning disabilities, transition

Features Healthcare Lived Experience

What difference does inclusive cancer screening make?

Post author By TransActual Editor
Post date 21 November 2020

I let the nurse persuade me to make an appointment for a check up and went along to the trans specific clinic. I live in London so actually had a choice of two trans specific clinics to go to. I think it being a trans specific clinic made it better somehow. I didn’t have that fear of being misgendered, judged or pitied. I knew that my genitals wouldn’t faze them. There is no way I would have gone to my GP surgery for a smear.

Tags cancer, screening, waiting lists

News

Why the census matters

Post author By TransActual Editor
Post date 25 October 2020

Census Taker 1921

Census data matters. It is the basis on which government decisions – including the allocation of resource and spending decisions – get taken. No trans data, no dosh. Well: not quite. But it makes the arguing for all manner of things, from subsidies to protection from discrimination that much more difficult. And that is exactly why not just Donald Trump, but anti-trans groups in general have been straining every single propaganda muscle they have to get trans people either removed from census or at very least marginalised into insignificance.

Tags census, jane fae, Office of National Statistics, ONS

Allies Community Features Transphobia

Trans people need you to be an ally

Post author By TransActual Editor
Post date 24 October 2020

It’s a difficult time to be a trans person in the UK. Over the last couple of years we’ve faced a relentless torrent of negativity in traditional media, social media and in the political arena ranging from misinformation to downright hostility. It is wearing to have one’s identity constantly denied, to be ‘othered’, mocked and portrayed as a threat to others. That’s why having allies is so important.

Tags London Frontrunners