Transwoman complains at delay in NHS hair removal treatment

Honestly? It took months for my best friend to get the scan she needed to tell how far her cancer has progressed. By the time she got it she was 4th stage...

My dear NHS
I need some redress
My stubble is growing
My beard it is showing
I look like a man!
(Even though I am.)
Though cis women pay
Please cough up today

This is what they need. Easy. And only £20.98

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So...who do we write to? I am going to send the article on to my MP querying why I have to wait months and months for an appointment and in the meantime my condition deteriorates and leaves me unable to care for my toddler without help, when this person is apparently eligible for medically unnecessary hair removal. Is there anyone else we should be writing to? I wonder about CCGs. I will look into it further but are they responsible for allocating funding to services in each area?

Lols we would

Not

Another one with PCOS and guess what?! I’m not entitled to laser or electrolysis through the NHS.

It’s not the cause of my mental health issues but it’s certainly contributed to it in the past. I can grow a better beard the my brother.

It’s got to the point where I have accepted that I have stubble coming in by 4pm. Sometimes it gets me down but there is not a lot I can do about. I just thank my lucky stars that I’ve avoided hair loss so far.

Real women pay for their own hair removal. If this person believes that ”trans women are women”, they should pay for their own too. They can’t have it both ways. Typical entitled narcissistic male attitude.

So women with actual medical issues causing hirsuteness do not get treated, but males with perfectly healthy bodies do. Sounds legit.

standards of femininity. 🙄

Ha. Women are repeatedly told to get rid of excess hair if they want to conform to society’s standards of feminists. And to spend £££££ on beauty products and treatments. Looks like you got what you wished for love.

If it's as vital to Jessica's happiness as she claims, why would she not get it done privately?

That's what the rest of us have to do when NHS keep us and our DCs waiting too long for treatment (assuming we're fortunate enough to be able to afford it), and laser hair removal doesn't cost half as much as all the actual necessary health treatments that many of us have had to go private for.

It's fucking infuriating that things like CAMHS are so under-resourced when shit like this is being funded by the NHS.

Also, I don't believe that she's just sat at home and cried about it for 6 moths if it's as important as she says.

Since I I reached my 40's I've got increased facial hair, I pay for removal, why wouldn't trans women? I don't begrudge surgery after a period of transition but the cosmetic elements shouldn't be part of it. I've got massive lumps (benign) that I cannot have removed as it's not medically necessary, as no gender reassignment surgery is medically necessary, yes it annoys me!

Meanwhile women pay for their own hair removal methods/laser/electrolysis for yes including their face, for hormonal, pcos, other conditions, or genetic hirsutism.

That article must be designed to peaktrans people. Maybe the Mail have realised they whip up more outrage and more clicks if they present a faux-sympathetic angle? Maybe they don't dare to openly offend the trans lobby? It's quite interesting how subtle they're being about it compared to their usual style!
My first thought too. Epic trolling from the DM

Not up to the DM's usual standards. DM is usually subtly GC. Stylistically different, too.

First the fertility freezing, now this. Transgender people are just some of very VERY many people vying for services from a cash strapped NHS and the sooner they realise this the better.

Women pay for their own hair removal, so it makes a nonsense of TWAW doesn’t it ?

I read the article earlier. What I thought on first read was:

Works in IT.

PCOS here too. My consultant admitted to me that I’d be much better placed to get NHS treatment for excess hair if I was a transwoman.

So a man can get facial hair removal to look like a woman, but a woman has to accept that some women just have facial hair and get on with it.

Yeah. That makes fucking sense.

I have idiopathic male pattern hirsutism.
Otherwise known as unlucky genetics with a full beard from just under my eyes/top of cheekbones, right down to my neck.
Used to be pretty lustrous as well

Well after years of bullying, razors posted through the letterbox etc I spent probably near £10,000 over 5 years for top notch laser. (Electrolysis really didn't touch it).
However, my trans sibling has had 20 free sessions of electrolysis.

It truly is a man's world

I guess when I refused to wear pink as a four-year-old girl I should have been transed

This comes up a lot and I agree, as a jeans, boots and t-shirt wearing young girl and now woman I guess I too should have been transed.
I even (shock gasp horror) wondered if I should have been a boy for about a year when I was around 12 ish.

I never mentioned this out loud cos yeah not cool. But imagine if that was me now. God I would be on hormones and "living as" a boy.

As for Jessica well just keep on shaving dear, or never leave the house, or brazen it out or y'know pay for your own treatment.

If they cave into this they better start supporting women " ADULT HUMAN FEMALES " who suffer from PCOS.

The fucking arrogance of these people