Following on from last week when my care provider, Gender GP, requested that I have a blood test to swap the prescription drugs that I am on, they sent a request to my doctors.

I even went into the doctor’s surgery to confirm that they had received the said email, but alas by Wednesday I had heard nothing from my doctors so I contacted Gender GP again to organise a private blood test and copied my doctor into the e-mail and voice my displeasure.

Of course, Gender GP responded very quickly but my doctors waited nearly all day before calling me to say that they had organised a blood test request form on Monday however they had failed to let me know, sighting that they assumed I would know.

Not only am I a medical outcast, because I use a private service
who prescribe my drugs because the NHS won’t,
but I’m also now supposed to be a fucking clairvoyant?!?

You honestly couldn’t make this stuff up and this is why I am getting increasingly pissed off with my doctors and am now actively seeking another surgery because of the way they deal with me.

If I ran my business the same way that they run their practice and treated my customers in the manner, I wouldn’t have a business in a very short period of time.

So they’ve requested the blood test for me but neglected to let me know! Do I then need to hold a séance each time I contact you?

No text message, no e-mail, no phone call (well not until I emailed them), and then it took an e-mail from me to my care provider for them to actually phone me by which time I had organised a private blood test.

I am going to complain to the General Medical Council because I am getting increasingly pissed off with the way that they are treating me because I want to find out why there is such poor treatment.

• Is it because I’m using a private care provider for my prescriptions?
• Is it because I’m transgender and they don’t want to deal with me?
• Or is it because the staff there just don’t give a toss?

Answers on a postcard, please!

I have actually emailed the surgery back to voice my concerns and they deemed to send me a text message, a screenshot of which is the opposite, instead of replying to my email! Probably because they know how angry I am at present!

As you can see they thought that I was doing something which I know nothing about!

Nobody has told me that I can self-refer, again lack of communication.

They didn’t even deem to put the web address in the text message they sent me which means I have to go and find this website!

Yet again dealing with my doctors leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth!

I really wonder if they are inept, stupid, or just don’t care!

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Well this month because of the Synarel shortages I have to change the drugs the I take and this is required a request going into my doctors for a blood test.

To give you an idea of how slow the NHS work, my Synarel will run out in just over a weeks time, and they received a blood test request on Friday the 24th of February and as yet I have heard nothing from my doctors.

I know that they have received the e-mail from Gender GP because I actually went down to the surgery with a printed copy to hand over to reception and was told they had already received a request from Gender GP. However on past issues they have told me that they have had emails from myself and third parties in the past and it turns out that this was bullshit!

So yet again I am waiting for my GP two actually approve a blood test so I think the best course of action is to go and book a blood test tomorrow and pay for this out of my own pocket.

If I go and have a blood test tomorrow privately I will have the results on Friday however because my doctors have agreed to do shared healthcare I’ve been asking questions as to whether or not this will affect the situation between Gender GP and my doctors and myself but wondering if I should actually care about this and care more about my own healthcare and sanity!?

Its not that I really give a shit about this anymore because I’m just sick of dealing with people who’s attitude towards my healthcare is 1,000,000,000 miles away from the private healthcare clinic I use and my own expectations.

I have actually thought about naming the doctors surgery however I will give them the benefit of the doubt one last time before I start shouting their name as a poor gender care provider!

I should mention as well but this is the doctors surgery which took 2 1/2 years to change the name on my NHS records despite having numerous copies of my deed pool hand delivered and sent via e-mail, all of which they said they did not receive despite me providing evidence to the contrary.

As I said, this is either incompetence, bullshit service or my doctors are transphobic? Which is it?

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The conversation with my GP today has reaffirmed my opinion that the NHS does not want to or are reluctant to help trans people or are hell bent on putting blocks in place.

I phoned my GP today to confirm that they would indeed support my prescriptions as 4 weeks ago the last doctor I spoke to said there shouldn’t be a problem which in my book doesn’t mean yes. Hence why I was checking.

On speaking to another doctor at the practice today, not only did she say they wouldn’t support me using Gender GP but she also cast aspersions about the owners of Gender GP which I have investigated and found to be untrue. She said that the owners of Gender GP had been struck off the medical register and it turns out they have been suspended. So allegations are not true. Very unprofessional of my GP.

My GP’s have said they will not support me in using Gender GP and said they will only help me if I use the assigned gender clinic, ie: Sheffield GIC. Which at present has a waiting time of 44 months. So much for the NHS’s 18 weeks referral times!

I am absolutely crushed by this but determined to forge forward and will pay for my own prescriptions and blood tests if needs be.

I have already paid for my own psychotherapy, and this is just another kick in the teeth or block in the way from the NHS.

After a year on the waiting list, I am still no further forward.

Time to take matters into my own hands.

Time to make time for my own matters.

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