#uk shit

[morninglesss]

Oh England, you’re fucking it spectacularly.

[bassboosted-moon-chao]

say farewell to your fucking numbers Layton

if you were between the ages of 3 and 10 in the UK around 2007-2009, I'm sure you'll understand.

[secretlyhuntokar]

This is going to affect so many people. Trans women are their main target, but this will have an impact on every trans person, nonbinary person, intersex person and anyone who doesn't conform to the Eurocentric expectations of gender presentation in the UK, trans or otherwise. Stay as strong as you can be, everyone.

[the-ace-with-spades]

how I know GPs actually don't want to help their trans patients at all: my GP 'doesn't feel comfortable' prescribing me birth control

this is a rant but I'm so fucking tired and I need to let it out

I've been on waitlist for NHS GIC for over two years, estimated 7 more years, I went private after DIYing HRT on and off over a year ago. First, I heard from my GP that as long as the psychiatrist and endo also work for the NHS, we'll prescribe your T for you, then once you finish your 6-month review, we'll do that, and then actually, I want you to have reviews every 3 months and only then I'll prescribe it for you - which would be more expensive than just buying it with private prescription by over x100 (review is £150, private prescription for 3 months is less than £15 with postage and filling). "I'm not comfortable prescribing TRT to someone who is biologically female," is what she 'explained', and, "This is not what testosterone use was intended for and I'm not knowledgeable enough in what kind of side-effects it'll have on you to put my registration on the line." I could show her the fucking BNF and how masculinizing gender identity disorder therapy is literally right under low T levels for men, and she'd still turn the other way.

Now, see I'm a trans guy who still gets his periods. I wasn't too bothered about them, but it seems that it was because my E was too high (or got too high, it was alright on DIY and then on the legal T at first). My endo said she will prescribe me birth control that would work as an E blocker before we try typical blockers (mostly due to a history of early osteoporosis in my family)

The birth control in question is regularly prescribed to cis women that feel bad on the typical pill, in fact, my cousin is on it, and my endo said my GP should not have a problem prescribing it but she'll send a guideline anyway. It's a 3-monthly injection that needs to be administrated at the GP and can otherwise get expensive as a private prescription because you need to book the administration service as well (even tho I have a few colleague nurses who would do it for free for me or tho I'm technically allowed to administer it).

I go to my GP with the guidelines from my endo added to the system and what does my GP say? "I don't feel comfortable prescribing this to you."

I ask why. She says it wasn't designed to act as an E blocker. I'm like, "You know it is birth control because it lowers estrogen production enough that the menstrual cycle doesn't proceed the way it's supposed to, right?" and basically give her a mini-lecture on how hormones operate the reproductive system because it's a fucking basic information. She says estrogen is needed for other functions as well and she's afraid it'll get too low on the injection, and like, yes, I know this --- something they taught me in fucking middle school --- but I have blood tests done every 3 months and my last said I have high estrogen by female ranges, not to mention male, so being too low is not even an option right now. She doesn't really say anything but, "I'll not prescribe it because I only feel comfortable prescribing it to women and I don't have enough knowledge to prescribe it to someone on testosterone."

So yes, I'm a woman to her when it suits her, or I'm not, if that suits her better.

[fyhk]

so insane watching the BBC trying to push Rishi’s ‘new definition’ of extremism, fucks sake? One can’t just redefine a concept just like that, one can’t just redefine a concept without having lexical credentials within the designated field where that concept is used, and no, a politician has no academic credibility whatsoever because redefining our lexicon isn’t their expertise, and finally, one can’t redefine a concept based only on their racist view to fit those racist lies…

[53rddaughteroftherevolution]

i wanna watch a come dine with me where dave lamb has to both compete and narrate

[ncutii-gatwa]

i wish rishi sunak, suella braverman, and the tories a very big fuck you and die very soon

[bienmoreau]

Like I know this might be stupid but it’s been bugging me for literally months and I just watched this weeks GBBO and Paul was like “Rainbows really represent the NHS” and like. I love the NHS. Very proud that healthcare is a basic universal thing in this country but it rubs be so fucking wrong that now whenever I see rainbows out theyre not for Pride/acceptance signaling anymore like. FUCK OFF we could have used anything as the symbol for celebrating the NHS y’all didn’t have to go and co-opt the rainbow to do it.