I will see the nhs for the first time tomorrow. What to expect? Any advice? By coincidence I jusy had my first delivery of hormones today, took delivery here at the office.... great!
/Johanna
I will see the nhs for the first time tomorrow. What to expect? Any advice? By coincidence I jusy had my first delivery of hormones today, took delivery here at the office.... great!
/Johanna
If you are talking about the Charing Cross GIC - which of course is not in Charing Cross - then you will meet one of the specialists who will likely become your primary clinician eventually. He will get you talking about yourself and your interests in order to do a preliminary assessment. To be fully included in the program, you will then need to go back at a later date for a second opinion.
My main advice is just be yourself - they are not interested in some kind of fictitious "standard narrative", they are interested in you and in your needs.
Check out this link if you are wondering about joining Safe Haven.
This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any
Galileo said "You cannot teach a man anything" and they accuse ME of being sexist
Never ascribe to malice that which can be easily explained by sheer stupidity
Yeah, This first one is not at Charing Cross (in Hammersmith), it will be in NW1. If I had my way I'd just rock up at Harley St. and get the initial things done quickly. I do intend to bring lots of documentation with me to support my intentions.
Today I took delivery, at work, of my first batch of hormones. This is soo cool - finally getting somewhere.
/Johanna
OK, that sounds like your pre-referral screening for other potential mental health complications. Some portray this as gatekeeping, but I see it more as due diligence.
The psychiatrist will be looking to understand where you are coming from and whether you need any additional support from mental health practitioners. Again, the only advice I can offer is be yourself.
Incidentally, did you know that the Charing Cross GIC in Fulham is part of the same NHS Trust as Broadmoor?
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This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any
Galileo said "You cannot teach a man anything" and they accuse ME of being sexist
Never ascribe to malice that which can be easily explained by sheer stupidity
Hey sorry for the late reply. I just came out from NHS, and too right it was this first screening. I got my referral to Charing X. no worries at all, the Dr that saw me was in no way specialist in this area but had actually referred 6 others before me.
Broadmoor, no way! Scary, that looks more like a HM Prison Service to me, and I should know having worked for the Queen
at Worwood Scrubs.
Well, most importantly I have now passed the first screening. One small setback today was that I had my review at work
and they were complaining about my dress code at work. I don't get it, is it the gurly wear or is it just not good enough?
CTO at work has been seen in t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops hot summer days. Hmmm...
/Johanna
Glad it went well.
At work, you will need to adhere to the male dress code until you start your RLE, then you switch to the female code. At least that is how it was for me. On a side note, this was the point at which management discovered they didn't have a female dress code for me to obey so a group of blokes hurredly wrote one which was a load of rubbish.
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This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any
Galileo said "You cannot teach a man anything" and they accuse ME of being sexist
Never ascribe to malice that which can be easily explained by sheer stupidity
Kinda sux, as I do have it in my contract that I can wear whatever I like, it only needs to be smart. So I have been
known to rock up at work en femme, and it has not been a problem, there is basically only one person that had opinions.
Funny that they did not have a female dress code in place, so are you the only one in your place of work?
So, I went to the NHS in male mode pretty much, under dressed, heels, men's fur coat that could pass for femme, woman's
linen trousers, a femme scarf. Not looking very female at all, no bling. I think I'll adopt this style when dealing with the
NHS in the future. I don't know when my next meeting will be, but I really need to prepare for it so I won't be wasting
time.
/Johanna
No, at my office it must be at least 60% women/girls, bu up until my transition they had never thought to codify what they were allowed to wear.
The blokes who cobbled something together must have all been well into their 50s or more because one requirement was for no hemline at or above the knee. Now most of the girls in my office are between 18 and 35 and none of them had any "suitable" skirts or dresses, so as a compromise they had to be given permission to wear opaque tights. That didn't stop one over-zealous manageress turning one of my friends away because her hemline was above the knee .
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This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any
Galileo said "You cannot teach a man anything" and they accuse ME of being sexist
Never ascribe to malice that which can be easily explained by sheer stupidity
Got a little bit of a question for you lot. Researching my alternatives and setting out a roadmap... Do the NHS support hair removal? The thing here is that I have access to free health care in quite a few countries and I'd like to pick the goodies from all of them. I have found one of these countries do the hair removal thingy, but then again - one have to actually go there!
/Johanna
This rather disappoints me, the NHS is the only free service to most people here and it is sometimes very hard to get onto the NHS trans service due to funding. Why am I dissappointed, well, by your own admission you have access to other free services and yet you choose to take an NHS place.
Listen carefully to what is said, quite often you can hear what is not being said
The joy of correcting a mistake can bring pain to another
Apololgies I forgot to mention, that to the best of my knowledge, the NHS consider hair removal to be cosmetic and funding for cosmetics is very very limited and would only be done if it became a serious issue.
Listen carefully to what is said, quite often you can hear what is not being said
The joy of correcting a mistake can bring pain to another
Sorry for keep serial-posting. I'll have my second session with the NHS in a few hours. Not a little bit nervous. This time I'm a little bit more prepared having read up on things, asked people that have been and done. I'll be properly dressed this time as well, not overdoing it. Of course it will all be secretly recorded for future reference.
/Johanna at wannabegirl dot co dot uk
Listen carefully to what is said, quite often you can hear what is not being said
The joy of correcting a mistake can bring pain to another
It is ok that big brother has me on thousands of cams just going to work in the morning but if I use the same to protect my own interests it is not! I am recording all things around me and all I do, and I should have started doing so many years ago, it would have saved me lots of greif.
/Johanna - not always following the so called law
You are aware that you are on the "big brother radar", those you are going to record have no idea that you are filming them.
Listen carefully to what is said, quite often you can hear what is not being said
The joy of correcting a mistake can bring pain to another
Not trying to frame anyone here. I record all my activities, a/v 24h of my whereabouts, I'm always gpsed, wified, triangulated. All my devices record a/v, location etc. all the time. I got keystroke loggers on all computers. Everything I do is well documented, encrypted and stored off site. I should have done this back in 2005 and my life would have been quite different from now. Once bitten!
When it comes to the NHS, I've during my ~8 years in the UK contributed to NI and taxes more than most ever will, so it is pay-back time.
/Johanna
Morning all!
Sorry for posting to this thread again. Life is sweet, I'm so pleased - yesterday I got my letter from the PRS to finally get my screening at Charing Cross in London. Can't recall when it is but I'm quite exited.
/Johanna
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Sunderland gender clinic is a joke as been on waiting list for nearly 11 months and still waiting. It's only people's live there playing with. I hope when do get in living as female for year will help speed things along.
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