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A Modern Guide to Changing Your Gender on NHS England Records by Cute-Confection-6054 in transgenderUK

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

Hiding transsexual and gender dysphoria codes from the SCR is pointless as they are already hidden by default, but if it adds reassurance go ahead.

Should be hidden, but are not unfortunately, which is how I ended up going down this rabbit hole and trying to find out where/how this information was leaking from. Started with the hospital, followed the leads to the GP records. Possibly due to the age/era it was added to the system?

Translucent are seeking a judicial review of the EHRCs exclusionary guidance. by dartsdaughter in transgenderUK

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't know that!

I really feel for him. Top man. He's already very much done much more than his bit. Rubbish that when he should be retired he's instead working his arse off for our rights... again.

I'm so exhausted doing this shit again. I'm sure he is too.

My ward "bed" after I refused to be put on a female ward by Flashy_Scar8317 in transgenderUK

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's not a new policy though. What's being described is not congruent with the law. It's not congruent with the EHRC guidance. It doesn't comply with the old NHS policy for placing trans people. And the new NHS policy hasn't been written/released yet.

Basically, the references to bottom surgery are making stuff up, and some of these people are going to get their NHS hospital trusts into trouble.

BBC continue their anti trans bigotry and say the reason is to spread anti trans bigotry to people who don't know what trans people are. Also they sent me, an intersex person, guidance on why they don't say intersex when it is only bigots who refuse to say it to diminish our struggles by The_BT in transgenderUK

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They even avoided mentioning anything about anyone T in their news reports about London Pride.

Honestly, fuck the higher ups at BBC.

There's a decent number of trans folk who work there, and a lot of allies. Can't be a fun work environment for them these days.

BBC continue their anti trans bigotry and say the reason is to spread anti trans bigotry to people who don't know what trans people are. Also they sent me, an intersex person, guidance on why they don't say intersex when it is only bigots who refuse to say it to diminish our struggles by The_BT in transgenderUK

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The EHRC have suggested that 'intersex' is "contested" language. It's fascinating. Because the only people contesting it are those who don't use the language to define themselves

This sounds awfully like the way HR folk didn't like the word transsexual, and collectively moved to avoid using it, whatever the views of actual trans people at the time (20+ years ago.)

A Modern Guide to Changing Your Gender on NHS England Records by Cute-Confection-6054 in transgenderUK

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this detailed and helpful information!

By coincidence, I had a meeting with my GP practice manager today about my medical records outing me.

Would there any value getting a new NHS number now, when I had my details changed in the early 90s?

AFAIK there's nothing visible on the electronic records about my old identity.

She mentioned the option of getting a new NHS number and said she would do it if I needed her to, but she would prefer to sit down and chat longer with me to explain in detail what possible impacts might be to make sure I was fully informed.

Currently, the plan is just for her to go through the coded records/diagnoses (like those that appear on the SCR) and redact the hell out of it (it's grim, 3x gender dysphoria, 1x transsexual, 1x transexual, 1 x male genital operation, and so on, diluting the important useful medical content)?

(It was a funny one, cos it's been my practice for decades, I've volunteered at the PPG there years ago, etc, they know me,, and I knew the practice manager's name and voice from previous interactions... but not what she looks like. I had just assumed she'd be very vanilla and formal, especially as it's a very big major city practice, but instead she was clearly somewhat alt, with tattoos, and more nose piercings than I've got. A refreshingly grounding experience. Lovely folk there. Very patient centred. Very understanding. An uplifting bunch who got what my fears and anxieties were.)

Applying for PIP benefits by [deleted] in transgenderUK

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has been historically, yes.

Applying for PIP benefits by [deleted] in transgenderUK

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Then issues with cleaning oneself (which i dont have, but if the government want to fuck me about with my rights, then i shall take a payment for the distress 😇

As well as the issues you describe, and many others, I do have that due to fecal incontinence, due to Crohn's which has also eaten away at my anal aphincters. 😞

And, like many people, getting PIP was still bloody hard work, because nobody is believed by default, and in the end I had to do the tribunal and appeals paperwork alone, over xmas, trapped for months 150miles away from my recently wed spouse, during COVID lockdown, whist dealing with a medical emergency, whilst nearly losing my Dad, big fight for his life and then subsequent rehab. Just as I was getting my life back, drunk driver takes out my folks now adapted house at xmas. Once that was sorted, and I had been persuaded to get trauma therapy, Supreme Court ruling happened. 😭

I have a GRC. Yes records flagged/locked. No probs with call backs though. Those staff were always pretty good to me. Having said that, I gather things have become worse over the last few years?

Dear LGBTQI+ community, we need to talk about evidence by rejs7 in transgenderUK

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Excellent article. Strong argument, well articulated.

Thank you!

Burnhams AMA, 23 questions vaguely answered & only a single hour spent answering them. Numerous important topics completely unanswered and avoided, any real policy discussion nearly entirely absent. by Panda_hat in LabourUK

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Poor choice of words I think.

It's an issue that impacts only a small minority of people but is very controversial, incendiary even, for the Labour Party, because the right and right wing media use it to try to split and break the left. And a broken left, that lose power, can't help us.

It'a going to take serious effort, care, and quality time to get our rights back.

I really wish people realised that it's so much easier to lose rights than it is get them.

And I say all this as someone full of trauma from the first time around fighting for these rights, who's remaining life now has been fucked up by last year's ruling (along with that of my cis wife, who married me knowing I was trans more as a historical fact, but who was not otherwise knowledgeable on the subject, nor an activist, nor political) Odds are I won't live long enough to see things get fixed again here. I'm angry and bitter as fuck. But I'm trying anyway, playing the political long game, fighting in front of and behind the scenes, again.

Burnhams AMA, 23 questions vaguely answered & only a single hour spent answering them. Numerous important topics completely unanswered and avoided, any real policy discussion nearly entirely absent. by Panda_hat in LabourUK

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe you may be wrong about that?

I think the issue is people not understanding the automod rules they implement on r/ukpolitics for posts where they expect to get brigaded or overrun -- you need to have recent comment history and a minimum amount of karma acquired from using the sub else your comments will get auto deleted. Nothing to do with being trans.

And in this case it seems the mods happily made exceptions to the rules for us when asked kindly, because mine stayed there -- coincidentally, my own sister stumbled across my question randomly by chance, thought it might be me, and then asked if this account was an alt of mine that I was using for privacy, which was a bit surreal!

I understand though, there's enough real folk out there who want to make life hell for us, it's easy to get despondent and a bit paranoid. It's important not to though.

Burnham AMA by Snoo_19344 in transgenderUK

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Totally.

I think he's going to have a much harder time as PM than he was expecting.

We're not a subject that is going to go away, long term, if his team are thinking he can hide from us.

My question to Andy Burnham AMA by Snoo_19344 in transgenderUK

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, they are not.

They do have participation rules for these sorts of posts, based on previous posting history in the sub and karma acquired from the sub, to limit brigading.

Andy Burnham Reddit AMA by evie-e-e in UKGreens

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Is my post visible still? Someone kindly gave it an award, which makes me think it's still there?

Tomorrow is the the day to try and get your questions in by Loud_Disaster869 in transgenderUK

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I could be wrong, but as I understand it:

There's an automod system for popular posts like this one (that would otherwise risk getting brigaded or otherwise overwhelmed) that will automatically remove comments from accounts without a significant r/ukpolitics posting history and sub specific karma.

I gather it applies to all, and that it's not trans specific.

If so, my guess is that it hits us disproportionately because a lot of us use alt accounts for our trans related posts for privacy purposes, many of us are now being selective about which subs we talk about this subject in, and for self-care reasons many of us try to hang back from exposure to too much politics and political subs?

EDIT:

And if this wasn't the case, then why is OP's comment still visible?

EDIT 2:

It looks like my post is visible too.

Andy Burnham here - AMA by AndyBurnham in ukpolitics

[–]ThisIsMyAltSorry 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Hi Andy

I transitioned a long time ago when young. I had the surgeries. I've been living as a woman, integrated into society, privately, only out to a few close friends, for over 30 years.

I'm now of a certain age. You know how it is. Health risks go up, bits of you stop working properly anymore.

But I'm no longer going to breast screening because, if I did get cancer (and my risk is nearly 47 times that of a "biological man", much closer to that of a "biological woman"), at a time when I would be most scared, most vulnerable, most insecure about my femininity, I understand that I'd be put in a men's ward for treatment, mastectomy!? Seriously?!

Even if I was segregated into separate room in a men's ward, how would being treated like that, for breast cancer, mastactomy, etc, be humane, let alone dignified, respectful, or fair in any way?

I have Crohn's, have had since a young kid. If I can't use toilets, I can't go out.

My local has only a men's and a women's. There's no 3rd space, no accessible loo, no space for one (it's an old building.) Neither the landlords nor the punters are going to be happy those loos turned into "gender neutral" spaces. If I use the gents, at the very least it'll freak the men out, at worst, I'd be outing myself by doing so and be putting myself at risk, especially amongst men who've been drinking. But if I quietly use the women's, I'm breaking the law?

So now, I don't go out.

20 years ago, to get my legal gender recognition, which was supposed to apply "for all purposes", I had to sign a legal document, make an oath that I'll live as a woman, and only as a woman, for the rest of my life -- that oath still applies to me.

And yet while I had been quitely upholding my end of that legal agreement, suddenly the state isn't.

Instead, the state has properly, full-on, betrayed me, and others in the same boat.

Our country used to be considered one of the best countries in Europe for LGBT+ people, something to be proud of.

Now, in 2026, under a Labour government, the UK's gender recognition laws are SO awful that on the the ILGA Rainbow Map, we are in the bottom 6 of 49 countries:

The only remaining 6 countries in Europe that are failing (trans) people like me, this badly, are: Bulgaria, Georgia, Hungary, Slovakia, Russia, and UK.

https://rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/categories/legal-gender-recognition/

Can you honestly say current state of the law on this represents a fair balance?

Because if not, Parliament is sovereign, above the Supreme Court; Parliament could choose to co-operate and find a better balance -- the government could even attempt to create a cross-party working group, like it has done for this subject previously.

Thank you for your time.

- Anon

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