The High Court has rejected our attempt to challenge the long waiting times experienced by trans people seeking help from the NHS. The waits are measured in years rather than weeks and months. We will seek permission from the Court of Appeal to try and overturn this decision.
he does know that this is the case with most things nhs related doesn't he? They aren't just making transpeople wait.
It took me about five months on the two week cancer pathway thingy to get a biopsy done.
On non urgent stuff I've waited years.
I had one appointment cancelled and rearranged four times by the hospital. My appointment was finally by phone two years after the date of the first appointment that they cancelled. And that's a department where I'm supposed to get yearly brain imaging done (which hasn't happened now for nearly five years) to see if the tumour (benign luckily) has grown.
If some teenager has to wait a few years to get an appointment to discuss removing their perfectly healthy breasts then what's so different about them that they should get special jump the queue treatment? Nothing! So they can wait like everyone else has to.