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variousqueerthings · 1 year ago

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And twenty years after government officially declared that being trans is not a mental illness, why is trans healthcare still located in NHS mental health trusts instead of in ordinary district general hospitals?

Gender Identity Clinics: Genesis and Unoriginal Sin

#queer stuff #trans stuff #trans rights #trans healthcare #uk trans healthcare #uk #i think this is the best intro-article on this particular history out there #ofc because it's introductory it sacrifices some nuance #(I think my main noticing was related to the description of the time when the institute was running in berlin #as a purely uncomplicatedly positive without going into the politics of the day and the lack of intersectionality)#(but that's the introductory nature of it)#(the point is very correct -- how can it be that something was being built 100 years ago #that was based in consent-based patient-first care and WORKED #and now the healthcare space is a toxic waste that doesn't acknowledge this history at all)#(i mean we know exactly why but it's fucking wild)

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