| > And according to the NHS Constitution, patients have a right to start care within 18 weeks of referral. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/right-to-start-co... . They can type things like that all they like. They don't reflect reality. My cousin, in daily pain, was told he'd have to wait 5 years for a kidney op last year. This year he nearly died from a resultant infection. Why do you think repeating a meaningless target is useful? It is ignored completely. And not availing of it doesn't make you special. > > practically unheard of 20 [years], which were invented in the modern era thanks to innovation in medicine to allow indulgences unknown to human civilisation before the technology existed - i think resources can be better used A handful of historical examples from recent post war years is not a trend. If it were a real need of real people, rather a byproduct of something else, it might have been more of an issue over the past 20k years. But the reality is, low latency comms networks in the past 15 years are the main driver. > Further, as the video points out, "if a cis woman goes through menopause, she can get oestrogen from her GP. If a trans woman wants it, we have to go to the gender clinic". Because one is medically indicated to help people and the other is pretty much a recreational drug not medically indicated for that purpose. > And hormone therapy is cheap. Assuming https://www.fiscaltiger.com/the-cost-of-gender-transition/ is right, generic estradiol costs about $4/month and the anti-androgen spironolactone costs between $4 and $12 per month. And that's retail prices the US, not wholesale prices the NHS can get. I presume you mean by trans woman, biological male. They can't undergo the menopause. If you want it as a recreational drug, then buy it yourself. Surely there are plenty of private doctors willing to write any script if the medical need is thusly so obvious? |
Was your cousin waiting for an organ transplant? That was one of the explicit exceptions on the list.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/right-to-start-co...
] There is often a period of time between the need for a transplant being identified, and a suitable organ for transplantation becoming available. Therefore, where first definitive treatment requires the patient to be added to a transplant list, then the patient’s clock should stop on the date that they are added to the list, and when this is communicated to the patient. Where a donor has already been identified (for example, a family member), then first definitive treatment would usually be the start of treatment itself.
Don't let the suffering of your cousin become the excuse for why others must suffer as well.
> over the past 20k years
At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender points out, non-binary gender has been around for at least 4 thousand years, and across many cultures, including "Some traditional Diné Native Americans of the Southwestern US acknowledge a spectrum of four genders: feminine woman, masculine woman, feminine man, and masculine man."
Just because you don't know about it doesn't make it not true.
Do you also believe, like President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that there are no homosexuals in Iran?
That seems an equally willful ignorance of human nature.
> the other is pretty much a recreational drug not medically indicated for that purpose.
Not according to your own NHS and court decision.
Just because you believe it, doesn't make it true.
And read the transcript, or watch the video, because it responds to just about every point you've made, and in more detail than I care to copy&paste.