Patrick Harvie MSP’s members’ business motion, lodged two weeks ago, highlights the shocking situation for Scottish trans people trying to access the Scottish NHS GIC system today: https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/votes-and-motions/S6M-19675

His motion is (currently) supported by just 12 MSPs, perhaps reflective of the wider anti-trans moral panic happening in the UK as a whole right now. 😔

Watch Parliament debate the motion yesterday: https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/members-business-patrick-harvie-unacceptable-waiting-times-for-accessing-gender-identity-clinics-november-26-2025

(I originally posted this thinking the debate was later today, but was mistaken. Going to watch it myself now!)

📷 Scottish Parliament

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PSA for any trans person on a gender clinic waiting list in England, Scotland, or Northern Ireland considering a move to Wales

The Welsh Gender Service (WGS) will take into account the time you've already spent waiting on another gender clinic's waiting list 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

How do we know this?

We emailed the WGS back in November 2023, asking whether we'd have to join the back of the queue at the WGS if we moved to Wales. Their response is shown in the image.

Their email address is [email protected] if you wish to verify this.

Please feel free to boost this, so that more folks are aware of it  

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I felt hopeful after my GP referred me. Four years on, I'm still waiting to be seen
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/i-felt-hopeful-after-my-gp-referred-me-four-years-on-i-m-still-waiting-to-be-seen/ar-BB1lEuvb?ei=11

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Transgender Services Are Losing Support From British Public in Wake of Latest Report Findings
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/transgender-services-are-losing-support-from-british-public-in-wake-of-latest-report-findings/ss-BB1lE0mU?ei=16

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Children to no longer receive puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/puberty-blockers-gender-identity-clinics-nhs-b2511437.html

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I just read @ErinInTheMorn’s Substack listicle on the top 5 US states for trans people (a welcome counter to all the recent horror stories about anti-trans legislation in the US)

In first place (spoiler!) is Washington state, and I was struck by this sentence:

‘The Seattle area alone boasts 34 separate informed consent gender-affirming care clinics, placing it among the regions with the highest number of clinics per capita’

Wow! 😮

In the UK, we don’t have an informed-consent model (yet) for trans healthcare

Instead we have psychiatrically gatekept gender identity clinics, and there are only about half as many of those in the whole of the UK (pop. 67 million) as there are informed-consent clinics in the Seattle area (pop. 4 million)!

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/top-5-states-to-be-transgender-in

#trans #TransHealthcare #InformedConsent #GenderIdentityClinics