Comments on: #TransDocFail hashtag: The Lowlights

By: The Julie Burchill transphobia scandal: CN Lester writes for So So Gay | So So Gay magazine

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:30:47 +0000

[...] with the medical profession on Twitter – what followed was the revelation of a national, systemic failure of care that should have been the business of every newspaper in the country. To date, I have heard it [...]

By: Nicky Goes to the Doctor | BecomingTheRealNicky

Nicky Goes to the Doctor | BecomingTheRealNicky — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:03:16 +0000

[...] looked at my medical history before I went in and assumed it would be something about that. I’d literally read yesterday about accounts of people going to their GPs and being laughed at …, and I was hoping to hell that he was going to be alright about it [...]

By: T

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:18:41 +0000

I hear about this kind of thing all the time. It’s why I don’t dare to even try to seek treatment for my own gender problem, why I have only told half a dozen people about it, and why I won’t use a name on this comment.

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Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:01:12 +0000

[...] It is better to let others speak. [...]

By: Padmavyuha

Padmavyuha — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:15:40 +0000

That’s true in principle, but my local and on-forum experience suggests there are a shitload of people out there with genuine bad stories (I have a few of my own). Most of it is on the back of ignorance among healthcare workers, but some of it is also prejudice. Given that trans people are pretty vulnerable, and don’t often get the opportunity to vent and be taken seriously, I think there’s a fair chance that the majority of these reports are true.
I’ve noticed in conversations with trans people that once someone tells a grim story about GP treatment, for example, other people start realising they’ve been on the receiving end of this too, and that it’s not acceptable. There’s still a culture of giving up one’s will to healthcare professionals in the UK, especially among the older generations, so it can be hard to feel like it’s okay to express unhappiness at how we’re treated.
And as for vested interest, it’s then equally possible that the campaign against Dr Curtis (for example) is driven by people who want to repress freedom in gender expression and are doing the complaints-system equivalent of what you’re suggesting. There’s no way to tell, either way.

By: Jowly

Jowly — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:06:09 +0000

Remember there is no guarantee that what someone says in a tweet is true.

For example, I have a vested interest in making this a news story, so I get a bunch of online friends to create a few accounts each and tweet made-up stories. Whether or not this is happening is of course not my call, but you have to admit the cold hard fact that it would be simple to pull off for any given topic or concern.

By: Please, No Moore: a snapshot of transphobia in Britain’s broadsheets « Media Darlings

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:31:20 +0000

[...] http://www.complicit…cfail-lowlight/ (HUGE trigger warning for any trans people who’ve had bad experiences with the medical community, i.e. all of us) [...]

By: Escândalo trans não é a falha de um doutor, mas a crueldade de muitos

Escândalo trans não é a falha de um doutor, mas a crueldade de muitos — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:40:00 +0000

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By: Pudding

Pudding — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:34:36 +0000

I’m puzzled about the NHS Direct one. NHSD don’t have doctors, not one. Just nurses and non-clinical staff. Any doctor a patient/caller speaks to after calling NHSD is from the patient’s own PCT, usually the out of hours service

In addition to that they have the best HR policies I’ve seen WRT trans and gay/lesbian staff, black/minority ethnic employees, and disabled staff. It has a zero tolerance approach on any bigotry.

I worked at a couple of sites (now closed, thanks Cameron!) and saw two people fired on the spot just for trans-related fail. As in literally being handed a black bag, told “Clear your pod and leave”.

That was before I came out. Thanks to them my RLE was simple. They immediately changed my logins, payslip, backdated and copied my assessment records to reflect my chosen pronouns, before shredding the. original, so as not to out me in the future.

I had too many treatment fails to count, but work even helped me complain through the local PALS for my PCT.

By: “Paperless NHS” puts the vulnerable at risk « Complicity

“Paperless NHS” puts the vulnerable at risk « Complicity — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:48:01 +0000

[...] the wake of the #TransDocFail hashtag, it has become clear that bad or abusive healthcare at the hands of medical professionals is still [...]