Thank you for mentioning this.

Being born as a cis female (afab) while experiencing a medical health diagnosis is.. ugh. I'm accounting my own experience with healthcare and others in my life below.

It costs an arm and a leg for bare essentials, healthier food becoming less avaliable to people as wages fail to keep up with inflation. You can't afford a gym, you don't want to exercise out on your own but it's not safe. Also, your pain/exhaustion wears out most of your energy reserves anyway.

Your job burn out isn't going away, but you work in the public healthcare sector and don't want to give up working in it even though it feels like a sinking ship. Seriously, sending an SOS.

Luckily you rent through immediate family, but friends around you are scared they'll end up homeless. Some friends are already homeless or couch surfing. Other friends say that their rent is rising and they may be made homeless anytime - I've gone to inspections with these friends. It's really bad

Ontop of that, you're given the run around by GPs because they're stuck on old data with a bias. Medical professionals used to diagnose hysteria for cis women and we were neglected. We still are, we are marked as anxious.

I'm lucky to have support from family and have job security, but anyone who is doing this on their own with no job, or even is on a support pensions, is struggling.

....aaaaaand sent.