Health Questions
It may be you identify as 'Trans' or not we would still like to hear from you as well! Your opinions and experiences are just as important in gaining a valuable insight into the nature of gender.
Questions have been grouped into subject headings for ease of analysis and publication. You certainly don’t have to answer all of them but please feel free to answer any which interest you if it helps or indeed write up your experience in a difference way. To contribute, you need to register on our website (with any email that you might want to use) and simply write your story as a comment below (click on post comment) or email us at gender@ecwales.org.uk.
• Do you feel as through your mental health has been directly affected by your perception of gender? If so, in what way?
• Do you feel that your gender has had an impact on your physical health If so, in what way?
• What are your coping strategies in dealing with issues that relate to your gender and are they effective in all areas of your life?
• If you have had to engage with health authorities have they been positive or negative experiences? Has your gender ever had an impact on the service you have received?
• What suggestions would you make to ensure contact with the health authorities could be made better for you?
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Questions have been grouped into subject headings for ease of analysis and publication. You certainly don’t have to answer all of them but please feel free to answer any which interest you if it helps or indeed write up your experience in a difference way. To contribute, you need to register on our website (with any email that you might want to use) and simply write your story as a comment below (click on post comment) or email us at gender@ecwales.org.uk.
• Do you feel as through your mental health has been directly affected by your perception of gender? If so, in what way?
• Do you feel that your gender has had an impact on your physical health If so, in what way?
• What are your coping strategies in dealing with issues that relate to your gender and are they effective in all areas of your life?
• If you have had to engage with health authorities have they been positive or negative experiences? Has your gender ever had an impact on the service you have received?
• What suggestions would you make to ensure contact with the health authorities could be made better for you?
BY EMAILING YOUR SUBMISSION TO gender@ecwales.org.uk OR REGISTERING ON THE SITE & POSTING ON THE FORUM YOU ARE AGREEING TO THE TERMS OF SUBMISSION
Please be aware that posting on the forum will be public. If you want your submission to remain private please email your submission instead.
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| Nina | Posted: 2010/8/26 11:44 Updated: 2010/8/26 11:44 |
Just popping in   Joined: 2010/7/13 From: Wales Posts: 13 |
 Do you feel as through your mental health has been directly affected by your perception of gender? If so, in what way?I have often been depressed by my gender dysphoria. But I have never believed it to be a mental illness, despite the best efforts of the notorious DSM-IV and extremist religious groups to portray us otherwise.
Joy |
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| Nina | Posted: 2010/8/26 11:46 Updated: 2010/8/26 11:46 |
Just popping in Joined: 2010/7/13 From: Wales Posts: 13 |
Engaging with health authorities I am well aware of significant issues experienced by others. I have not even attempted to go via my GP on gender issues, because I know how hard it is to go through it all, and how long the waiting list is to see someone at a gender identity clinic. (Though when I had a blemish removed I was grateful to be told by the NHS G.P. "I've done that much better than I normally would for a man").
There is almost no NHS budget at all for hair removal, voice therapy or disphonia (and that's even before the present cuts!). It's very difficult to get, even privately. Yet those treatments are significantly cheaper and much more useful and effective in my view, than what is traditionally regarded as "the op." We need to get that message across to GPs and Government, particularly when the usual argument is trotted out that money for "aspirational" surgery is wasted when compared to "real" needs. Joy |
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| Nina | Posted: 2010/8/26 12:13 Updated: 2010/8/26 12:13 |
Just popping in Joined: 2010/7/13 From: Wales Posts: 13 |
Hopes for the future I hope that the progress Trans-People have made over the last few years will continue to accelerate and we will get rid of prejudice against us.
That we achieve much better health care and support in the NHS including proper joined-up health care & support with all the ancillary services (voice Training, Facial Cosmetic surgery, breast augmentation, Hair removal , deportment, make and style skills etc) all being part of the care for Trans-People rather as Dr. Richard Curtiss is attempting to do privately. http://www.transhealth.co uk/ This can be via outside agencies & support groups but should be co-ordinated by the NHS. That we can all collaborate amongst ourselves throughout all the separate TG groups to achieve much better use of our limited resources, as together we’re so much stronger. That we continue to understand how the Gay and Lesbian community achieved its rights and acceptance. That soon, being a Trans-person will soon be as ordinary as being from an Ethnic minority or being Gay. Jenny-Anne |
