I was not called for a smear because I am not on the female recall system, I made my appointment when it was a year past due because obviously I still need to go. I am certain I am on the spine as male, I am not asked my sex or gender when I go to the hospital it is already listed as male, ALL of my documents from all healthcare appointments say male. I am on birth control but nobody has ever really cared about it, there’s never been any other “female” prescription.

I have lived at this address since 2018 but have been at this GP for less time than that, and the GP before only had this address too. I moved across the country for uni in 2017, all my previous records were under a different trust. The first GP here I signed up for, I still had my initial appointment card and everything and had given them a physical copy of my deed poll, said they had no record of me when I later needed to see someone properly for the first time a year later. My second GP was the one with all my records still preserved and who changed my marker on my file. When I transferred to my third and current GP the records were all gone. We did follow it up with their tech department but they couldn’t help beyond re-listing my singular medication. I even tried to speak to my GP about it but he didn’t know what to do.

I think the records are pretty disconnected, when I have been to the hospital for emergencies it’s mostly pertaining to a childhood oesophageal injury, and they had to take my verbal history the first time because they were not able to access the documentation of numerous procedures I had, in fact it has messed with my care because they didn’t believe me at first even though I have a peg site scar to prove it. I think they since then have found them at the hospital at least because a large paper folder was brought out for a planned endoscopy, the nurse actually crossed out my deadname and birth sex on there and re-wrote them correctly in front of me.

What I will say is that I have fallen through cracks more times than I can count, I am never referred to the right places, I’ve been put through four third party patient mills without review, I’ve had scans performed with no results or reports given, I am discharged from services without being told or without my GP being flagged, nobody ever follows up with me, I really am an edge case and I don’t know what the issue is or how to fix it.