Trump Urges Passage of the SAVE America Act — With New Provisions
Trump wants Congress to add voter ID and mail-in ballot restrictions, as well as unrelated anti-trans provisions.https://murica.website/2026/03/trump-urges-passage-of-the-save-america-act-with-new-provisions/
We don't have the spoons for a detailed post. We've written other posts recently giving updates on some of our struggles, but we needed to get the thoughts out of our head before sleep tonight 🥺😔
We're realistically facing a situation very soon where we'll officially be told that we're not going to get any gender-affirming surgeries from NHS England whatsoever, making the last nearly 5 years of trying to progress through this dehumanising, anxiety-inducing, decorating, belittling, gatekeeping, outdated process completely worthless 
We already had to accept we could never get FFS.
We tried twice to convince them to give us VFS, but they said no, and gave us no actual further voice training help.
We knew that trying to get PPT vaginoplasty would be a longshot, but we never expected:
We've reached the point where we don't think we can get any joy from seeing other trans+ folks' joy and euphoria from making progress in their own transitions, particularly surgeries, as we can't help but feel so painfully sad crushingly jealous and upset that we cannot get even the most basic care after waiting even longer 😔
And nope: we've zero chance of being able to ever even fund the cheapest of surgeries privately.
Apologies for the sad dump. We needed to write it all out to have any chance at getting to sleep soon 
#EOEGS #NHS #NHSEngland #FuckTheNHS #FuckEngland #FuckTheUK #GenderAffirmingSurgery #GenderAffirmingHealthcare #gatekeeping #trans #transgender #NonBinary #TransFem #GRS #GenderDysphoria #transition #PPT #PIV #FFS #VFS #orchidectomy #FML #queer #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #LackOfTransJoy
Hey folks
Been trying and failing to write this post for a few days now.
Mood, health, energy, time, chores, obligations, and responsibilities kept getting in the way.
So, we're gonna summarise everything as much as we can, and try and limit our emotional response to it.
Important context
Information from meeting
Outcomes for us
After considering options and offers, we resignedly sent an email to the private hospital, requesting that they refer us back to GDNRSS, advising that:
Sadly, an individual funding request (IFR) will almost-certainly be required, but the gender clinic has previously refused to submit any IFRs for us, so we're kinda very likely to be screwed here.
For anybody not aware, IFRs get submitted to your local integrated care board / system (ICB/ICS) in England. They'll only agree to fund something if:
Although technically an NHS GP can submit an IFR, unless it comes from the NHS gender clinic with a detailed explanation of why they can't / won't fund the surgery and why it's necessary, the local ICB funding team will just reject the request.
This is sadly a major issue for us, as we've raised multiple complaints against our gender clinic for their awful service (or rather lack thereof) and they've stopped responding to any of our emails now, so there's little to no chance of them even agreeing to submit an IFR for us, let alone doing one with a decent chance of being accepted.
We don't know what the current price is for a bilateral orchidectomy, but it was up to about £6k a year or two back, so it's probably more like £7K to £8K now
In other words, nothing we could afford privately any time in the next decade.
So... yeah 🙃
If you wondered why our posts have been a little bit more bleak the last few days, this is among the reasons 😅 (There are sadly many other things contributing too.)
It's our own fault really for even trying to go through the NHS route and thinking that maybe, just maybe, they wouldn't continually fuck us around.
Anyway, that's the toot.
#NHS #NHSEngland #EOEGS #NCTH #trans #transgender #NonBinary #enby #FemEnby #GRS #GAS #vaginoplasty #orchidectomy #GenderAffirmingHealthcare #IFR #ICB #ICS #FuckTheNHS #FuckTheUK #DesegregateTransHealthcare #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+
i am so very upset. i know that its meant to appease the current admin but it seems ridiculous for one of the biggest health systems in wisconsin to basically halt care for a portion of their patients.
(dont get me started on UW Madison medical school no longer teaching medical students how to perform abortions...)
#uwmadison #wisconsin #genderaffirmingcare #genderaffirminghealthcare
Symptom: Assigned Female At Birth
https://www.illmarks.com/symptom-assigned-female-at-birth/
#acog #afab #art #AssignedFemaleAtBirth #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #bodyart #bodydysphoria #bodyhorror #chronicIllness #dysphoria #Dysphoric #genderAffirmingCare #GenderAffirmingHealthcare #gyn #gynecology #healthcare #healthcareArt #invasive #longcovid #marginalizedGenders #mastcellactivationsyndrome #mcas #medart #medical #medicalArt #nonbinary #obGyn #OBGYN #pwLC #pwme #reproductiveRights #SciArt #SoTiredOfGoingToTheWomensClinic #trans #TransInclusiveHealthcare #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights
3 Hospitals Under Investigation for Providing Gender-Affirming Care to Youth
Children’s hospitals in Washington State, Colorado, and Minnesota face federal scrutiny for care that is legal.
Just finished watching Leeja Miller's latest video on new anti-trans rules in the US 🥺
Leeja referenced a Trans Relocation Guide, so we wanted to share this here for any US folks affected by this 
Additionally, in case you're not already aware of it, there's a global, umbrella organisation called ILGA World that we recommend checking out. It's sub-divided into regional network organisations and has over 2000 member organisations.
The regional networks are:
ILGA-Europe produces a yearly Rainbow Map to rank European (and some adjacent) countries by LGBTQIA+ rights and equality.
If you are affected by the recent anti-trans rights actions taken in the US or elsewhere, please, please make a note of the above organisations, as well as the below websites about gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT):
Suffice to say, boosts very much welcome and appreciated 
#trans #transgender #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #healthcare #GenderAffirmingHealthcare #GAHT #HRT #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #queer #FirstTheyCame #UnitedWeStandDividedWeFall #FuckFascism #FuckBigotry #FuckTransphobia #FuckTrump #FuckJFKJr #US #USA #BoostsWelcome
Group Offers Guidance to Help Keep Getting Care After New Trump Anti-Trans Rule
Organizations like the Trans Youth Emergency Project will be essential in navigating a rapidly shrinking care landscape.@jaelisp We're AuDHD, so trying to reconcile opposites is our daily struggle 😅
At a high-level, we see and resolve the seeming contradiction broadly as follows:
Nationalised health services, free at the point of use and paid for by taxation (national insurance contributions) are a fundamentally good idea at their core and have the capacity to be amazing.
That said, malicious forces will do everything within their power to erode any national public service, especially healthcare, for their own gain.
These malicious forces include (but are not limited to):
It is not just being eroded from the outside either, sadly. There are ideological forces at work within the medical institutions themselves
We're talking (in no order) pervasive, insidious, institutionalised:
etc.
Even the BMA reported on the systemic issues recently!
Some issues are not the result of a lack of funding or expertise, but a fundamental refusal from the very top to change the way the system works.
On gender-affirming care, for example, The Transgender Issue: An Argument For Justice by Shon Faye breaks down how gatekeeping, long-waits, and transphobia were baked into the system from its creation.
Since its inception, access to trans healthcare has similarly been an ideological battleground. For those who need them, medical transition and contraception or abortion are – or should be – about the bodily autonomy of the individual, their right to mental well-being and the freedom to carve out their own destiny in defiance of prevailing gender roles. (These roles, should we need reminding, frame women as vessels for reproduction and trans people as threats to the strict separation of male and female sex roles on which patriarchy depends.) Access to abortion and access to trans healthcare are often attacked in similar ways: principally by overstating the incidence and likelihood of regretting either process, and an intense, disproportionate focus in the media on the stories of individuals who do regret their personal choices, as a way to undermine the principle of choice generally. Only about 5 per cent of women experience any degree of regret over their abortion. Multiple studies show the regret rate for gender reassignment surgery is even lower: about 0–2 percent. Despite this, the fear of regret has become a powerful tool used to justify the delay or withholding of treatment.
and
... it wasn’t until the 1960s that transsexualism became a formally recognized diagnosis within the British medical establishment. ... Medical support for trans people, however, was still rare. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, individual trans patients continued to use the ambiguous and contested link between physical intersex traits and the psychological experience of gender dysphoria to get certain doctors to treat them – though, even then, few doctors would. A 1966 study in the British Medical Journal found that only ‘9% of psychiatrists, 6% of GPs, and 3% of surgeons’ would agree to actively assist transsexual patients. All of which effectively meant that trans people’s lives and destinies were dependent on the whims of a very small number of British doctors.
Shon goes into detail about the awful Dr John Randell, who worked in the gender identity clinic at Charing Cross Hospital, including one part that tells you all you really need to know about him:
Even when Randell had assisted with transition, patients often found him brusque, even cruel. ‘It hasn’t made you a woman, you know – you’ll always be a man,’ he reportedly told one trans woman who thanked him after surgery.
She sums up his pivotal involvement as follows:
It’s worth pausing to consider that the most powerful pioneer of trans healthcare in twentieth-century Britain was a cisgender male psychiatrist who believed neither in the reality of trans people’s deeply held identities nor that gender norms were socially constructed ideals that could be relaxed, challenged or abolished. He believed trans people were delusional about the reality of their situation and that at the same time they also needed to be highly competent mimics of gender stereotypes. He did not believe that they should be allowed freedom over their interpretation or expression of gender.
In short, the NHS could be great, but the current systems are fundamental rotten at their core. In order to fix the NHS, we would need to break both it and the medical institutions down, rebuild them, and then spend decades building them back up whilst engraining a culture of empathy, caring, and non-discrimination into the training of all staff (medical and non-medical) across the board.
#NHS #transphobia #transmisogyny #racism #bigotry #prejudice #GenderAffirmingHealthcare #ableism #FuckTheNHS #ShonFaye #BMA #queer #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+
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