Someone in the tags asked to make a transscript of this so it’s easier to read so I ended up doing so.
“The new scheme By Trans clinics to screw non-binary folks out of care and sanity.
Hi! I’ve got some news for you about the new policies of the finnish trans clinics.
I mean, we’re pretty much at the point where things are really fucked up.
To summarise, the situation at the moment is that if you’re non-binary you have to lie at the transclinic.
We should be crystal clear that absolutely no-one should ever have to lie to get the treatment they need.
Let’s go through some background.
Even though our culture would like us to believe, gender is not a black and white thing.
Between men and women (Both trans and cis) lies many shades of gray.
Trannswomen and -men are given diagnosis for transseaxuality, F64.0.
And for those who don’t belong to a binary gender are given F64.8, other specified gender dysphoria. That is, non-binary gender identity.
There are no binding rules for standardised treatment, but the trans clinics have written referrals to hormone replacement therapy and for some specific surgical treatments from 2008.
There are two trans clinics in Finland, HUS and TAYS.
Early 2018 we learned that HUS has stopped giving referrals to any treatments for those who have been diagnosed with F64.8.
Some people who are not so familiar with the situation might wonder why this is so important.
Non-binary people can feel just as uncomfortable in their bodies, that is to say they feel dysphoria, just as bad as binary trans people.
The dysphoria of non-binary people is exactly as valid as binary trans people.
Non-binary people who suffered from dysphoria need access to healthcare just as bas as binary trans people.
The fact that non-binary people are denied access to the care they need means that they are extremely susceptible psychological effect like anxiety, depression and possibly lead people toward self-harm and alienation from society.
This puts non-binary people into a position where they are forced to lie to get the healtcare that they require.
And it should go without saying that nobody should be forced to lie so that they get life-saving healthcare.
TRASEK RY, the trans patient advocacy organisation has been in touch with the trans clinics and the national institute for healt and welfare.
(Their demands regarding the care of non-binary people are clear. TRASEK’s demands from their press release on 17.8)
The care should be individualised, based on the needs of the patient and the decisions about the care should be transparent and happen in conjuction with the person being treated.
Diagnostics and treatment shouldn’t be concentrated on the gender identity of the individual, but rather be dictated by the needs of the person being treated.
The desire to acces tgese treatments should be handled as a question or self-determination and the confirmation of ones identity, not as a psycho-pathological symptom.
The availability of resources should be ensured so the patiens aren’t subjected to unreasonable waiting periods.
There should be nothing unusual about any of this. We should not have to fight for such basic human rights in this millenium.
It is a massive embarrassment to the whole finnish healthcare system that we have taken such colossal steps backwards after all the work we’ve done to establish these rights to gender minorities.
There are no alternatives than to get this fixed as soon as possible. ”
Hope this helped for those who can’t read the comics.
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