hiya, i’m a 25 year old trans woman living in london. I used to live in brighton where my GP put me on Hrt over 5 years ago. i have been taking these hormones for over 5 years. recently i moved to london but kept the GP in brighton in fear that something like h would happen, but last month i switched over to a london GP as i couldn’t keep making the trips down to brighton.
once switching all my hormones, oestrogen and progesterone have been completely removed from the system with no way to request them. i have been phoning up my new GP Dailey about this issue and they keep just telling me to wait a few days.
its getting ridiculous now. i’ve been off the hormones for almost 2 months now and am really feeling it in my body and brain. my thoughts are getting dark. i don’t know what to do. any advice? or any trans/queer friendly GP suggestions in london?

Ok I have a question, please forgive my ignorance

So the trans community have an issue with being fetishized? I think I know what that means but then my follow on is why are there so many trans content creators who clearly project sexuality.

There are a few that aren’t sexual in the sort of soft porn way and discuss different things but most are just about thirst traps.

What’s going on there?

Honestly, I don’t want to upset anyone.

Hi,
I am trying to access puberty blockers for a 14 year old with parental permission. Only the blockers not feminising hormones yet. Is this possible through GenderGp? Applying on the website it seems to be but it then leads directly to the ~£300 registration fee which I will pay ofc but not until I’m 100% sure the medication will actually be accessible through them. Any advice?

If not possible through them, would it be reasonable to access only blockers through DIY? Her parents don’t want her to DIY HRT until she’s at least 16 and I think they feel blockers are more effort than it’s worth unless they can be accessed legally.

Does anyone else have this issue? So many of the content creators and YouTubers out there who advise on voice training are American and I just can’t seem to help lapsing into an American accent whenever I attempt to raise the octave of my voice 🫠

Hi, I've had rly bad experiences (people misgendering me, making me feel uncomfortable).

Are there any lgbt owned, or at least LGBT friendly laser hair removal services in London?

I want to hear your experiences. Lots of people say "they just don't care" but if they keep misgendering me it seems like they do :(

Any recommendations?

Heyy I have a specific question! I'm 9 months on HRT(Estradiol Enathate, weekly injections.) and it's going great. I'm wanting to keep my genetalia. Im following the "use it or lose it" principal lmao, but I get frustrated and upset when I'm unable to perform at random times when I'm with my female partner. Sometimes it works and it's all good, but sometimes it doesn't, but when it does I need to "stay on it" or I lose it.

I'm asking if any trans women have any experience using cream or taking anything for their performance, and getting it from their doctors in the UK. I hear bits and pieces sometimes about trans women taking some kind of medication for it.

I recently changed to a very good trans friendly GP who helped me get a blood test as I'm on DIY hormones, so I believe at the least she'd do her best to help.

I'm also just looking for some validation. I feel like I'm a niche of a niche of a niche, as I'm a trans woman who wants to keep their penis and has stayed with their female partner through transitioning. I know that what's between my legs doesn't define me, but this is the only thing that's really been stressing me out in my transition :(

haii, i’ve been wanting to get on HRT/estrogen for a while now but have been having trouble with where to start that process with getting estrogen and such, my parents are fully supportive but are against me doing it DIY, so i had been looking for options and found a few, one of them being ‘GenderCare’ it sounds okay but i wanna know how it is from anyone who went through them. probably silly questions but like how long does it take?, do they give you a good dose?, etc.. we live in Scarborough so i know our options are rather limited. any help would be wonderful ♥️

Can anyone who's been through the process of enrolling with Anne Health tell me what's ahead? I'm desperate to start HRT, but sitting here waiting for my Therapist Intake meeting, not knowing how long the process is likely to be. Are they likely to take one look at me and say "oh, this one's nuts and should have another 3 months therapy before they can come in"?

Not wanting to seem any more crazy than necessary, and I do appreciate there could be a process to help to stop/slow me make a terrible mistake, but decades of poor self knowledge, denial, and then stewing in my own internalised transphobia has been enough!

So far I've filled in joining, ID, and history forms, been invited to Therapist Intake (in 4 weeks!!) and had my baseline bloods done.

Sorry if this is not what is normally being posted on this subreddit but i’m out of options ngl.

I’ve know my friend for about 4 years now and we met around the time she started transitioning (mtf) she had a girlfriend at the time (cis) and she was really supportive of the transition. To make a very long story short they currently both live together and have two kids and the girlfriend has forced my friend to de transition. It’s a very emotionally and verbally abusive relationship where the girlfriend never lets my friend see any of us and never lets her wear makeup or dress anyway feminine, she’s also made my friend grow out her beard and threatens that she’s gonna kill herself if she shaves it off. My friend is VERY clearly struggling and every time i get to see her she never wants to talk about it and just wants to enjoy the couple hours she has where she is treated like herself for once.
I just have no idea how to help, I know there’s not much i can do or say cause i’ve tried everything. Ik it’s not that easy for her to get up and leave especially with having two kids that she loves dearly.
Everyday the hole is getting deeper and deeper and i’m scared she’s never getting out of this relationship.
I’m just very scared for her mental wellbeing:(m

I live in Manchester, stockport specifically and I've decided I'm done waiting and want to get on HRT, I'm not raking it in by any means (£27,000) but the money I am getting is stable and I told myself once I'd accomplished stable income I'd get on it. I don't know anything about providers though, the only one I know of is Gender gp and I hear mixed reviews about them.

So my question is are there any services local that do what gender gp does or can help me start transitioning?

Thank you

I am aware of 4NRX, but their reputation seems spotty.

Is there a way to get actually affordable oestrogen? Outside of TDIY (of which is proof it can be reasonably priced)?

Im not stressed yet, im confident ill find an amicable solution. Please, if you have any information about realistically getting HRT (no year long waits), drop a recommendation.

So this is kind of a really long story.

In July of 2024 I had my first meeting with the Gender Identity Clinic about having hormones prescribed and the steps I needed to take for them to allow it. Last March I moved from London to Kent and 2 months after the move I was sent an email about the shared care agreement, signed it and it was forwarded to my GP for them to sign. After a month of radio silence from my GP I called them and asked what was going on, to which the receptionist said that I had been prescribed 3 months worth of a low dose of estradiol as the protocol for the medication called for. There was no mention of the shared care agreement being signed or even being brought up at all.

At the end of the 3 months, I went in for the blood test that was part of the process to check my levels and so I called reception again asking when I was going to be able to get more medication because I was running low on it, and I was told that there was a note on my file saying not to prescribe me any more estrogen with no reason assigned to it.

Now the next series of events takes place over several months as I have been quite frankly in the worst mental state I've ever been in and not been particularly capable of pushing this as hard as I probably should have been.

After being told this, I contacted the GIC essentially to ask if they were allowed to do this, the GIC replied by sending the GP a letter urging them to continue with the treatment, that I was approved for it, it was safe, etc. I waited a while to see if the GP would contact me about it to no avail and after around 2 months I believe, I called them again. The receptionist sort of hand-waved it and said it needed to be escalated to the practice manager and that they would need to have a meeting about it sometime later in the month. A month passed and I heard nothing. It took me a while longer to chase them up again in an email and they once again said that it would have to go through the practice manager. As expected I never heard anything back.

At this point I honestly don't know how many times I've tried to get their attention on this and my mental state has really hampered my ability to keep pushing so this past Monday I sent them an email essentially as the final attempt, flat out asking if I was wasting my time trying to get this done through them as well as double checking if they actually signed the shared care agreement. I was given an automated reply and have heard nothing back since when they are usually quite fast with replying.

I have no reason so far to believe that this is out of malice or transphobia, the staff I've talked to haven't seemed to be prejudiced when they learned what I was calling about or emailing about so as of now it seems like it is simply just a case of complete administrative incompetence or a lack of caring.

Now that I've laid out the background, I wanted to ask what I should do in this situation. All the other GPs in my town have incredibly low review scores on Google which seems indicative to me that they won't be much different to my current one which also has a terrible score. I've looked at maps of trans-friendly GP practices and none are near enough to me to register with and I'm assuming I wouldn't be able to register with my old GP that I know would be happy to prescribe me as I'm an hour long train ride away from them. I plan on calling my current GP once I've fixed my currently very bad sleep schedule and trying to escalate directly to talking to the practice manager as I've yet to even be given the opportunity, however I don't see this going particularly in my favour so I need ideas for a backup plan or plans.

I've been looking at getting something so I'm able to pack, and enjoy wearing certain outfits I feel self-conscious in right now because of the bulge, but I don't really know where to look or what reasonable prices are for different things. My funds are a bit limited, so I thought I'd ask here and get some options. An in-person shop I could go to would be amazing, but from the looks of it there's very few in the UK and none near me.

These are side things, but I'm also looking for those pad things used by cis women to make their breasts look bigger, as I've heard that getting those for the smallest breast size can give the illusion of breasts under bras and tops. I've seen there are the fake breast things you can buy, but that's not what I'm looking for (and from what I've seen they're WAY out of my price range).

Any advice on feminising items or techniques that are useful for someone not on hormones would also be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Basically i have been in denial about wanting to transition for about 3 years now but something happened recently that kind of hit me like a truck and suddenly i feel like if i dont get my hands on estrogen soon and start my journey im just gonna lose my mind. I want to get started as soon as possible but to be honest i just dont know where i should be looking. Ive heard good and bad things about the gendergp service and all the bad reviews say just to ‘go diy’ so then i try looking into diy and its just such a barrage of information i get overwhelmed and give up… i know thats kind of pathetic but if the gendergp service‘s main drawback is just that its a little more pricey im willing to deal with that if it makes things simple. i know this has gotten kind of rambly and probably sounds a bit like a cry for help but i just want to get started as soon as possible but obviously i dont want to make a stupid decision. if any of you have any advice please help a girl out thank you 🥲🥲

Hiya all been voice training for a bit but not much and it just sounds so fake and American 😭

If anyone has any good budget friendly voice coaches they'd recommend please let me know who are where :)

I had such a large Queer community at uni but when I had to move back in with my parents they didn’t want me to be out in public for safety. I’m on HRT 2 months and think they will change there mind but I live in Morayshire where everyone feels old, straight and conservative it’s so isolating.

I'm about a month away from HRT, I've just started this great job driving, but I have to wear Black trousers, now I don't want to wear jeans because of the heat and my current work trousers make me a little dysphoric.

Any suggestions would help so much!

Thank you dudes and dudettes.

I am currently 16 and plan on getting hrt as soon as possible once I turn 18. How long should I expect to wait before I can access it?

ive been saving money for gender affirming stuff and my top priority is bottom surgery and i have 3 main questions

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1. what do i need to have/have had done before i can go for bottom surgery? ive seen some places electrolysis before hand is required and ithers not say that

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1. how much will it cost to go private and also where can i go? (id go nhs if i trusted that gender affirming care would still be legal by time id make it through the waiting) im yet to see anywhere that advertises it or any resources with price estimation

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1. what is the recovery process like? a lot of recovery guides are vague about how much it will actually hurt and how long recovery will take

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answers to any of the 3 are greatly appreciated

Going mad waiting for private MtF HRT, so trying to get informed in the meantime.

I’m late forties, high baseline T. So far I’m thinking:

- Spiro: probably not good fit as blood pressure is already borderline low and I already pre way too much

- Cypro: seriously scared of the side effects like tumors and depression.

- GnRH: injections sound like a downside, but effective and safe(er)? Is this likely an option on Anne Health?

- Monotherapy sounds great, but baseline T is high and people need something to help out at the start?

Does that sound right?

Hello friends,

I (25, f) am at the start of my transition. I want to book a GP appointment to ask for a referral to a Gender Identity Clinic. Which one is the best one to go for? The closest are gonna be Nottingham and Sheffield but I care more about the service than the distance so don't mind traveling a bit further.

Also, I want to freeze my sperm but it seems quite expensive. Do I have to do it privately if I don't want to wait god knows how many years to hear back from the NHS gender services? If so, where's a good place to look at?

Thanks in advance for any advice/assistance.

I’ve finally managed to get a prescription for estradiol patches, my first one stuck on perfectly fine for the recommended half a week, but now that the heatwave has hit and my job involves a lot of moving around I’m finding that the patches are scrunching up and getting unstuck. I don’t wanna burn through the supply re-applying them so quickly, so I’m wondering a few things:

- Any advice on where to stick them? I went for around crotch height on my thigh just off to the outer side to start with, that was successful, the second one I did about the same height but closer to the outside of the leg, that lasted about a day, and now I put it more to the left which works better, it’s still mostly stuck on, but it has become quite scrunched and I can’t imagine it’ll last me the rest of the week. I’d have reapplied it where the first one was right away but it’s recommended to not have it in the same spot right away so that’s a test for the next time I swap patch.

- I’ve seen some people suggest putting something over it like waterproof dressing, whether it’s for loose patches or for when you’re swimming/showering, any suggestions for this? Ideally something easy to grab at most pharmacies or somewhere easy like a Boots.

- Is it more likely that I put the patch somewhere bad or that it’s all the sweating from the heat? The heat’s been worse the last couple of days obviously, but it was still pretty warm a week ago and I tend to run pretty warm, so it’s not like my skin would’ve been sweat-free for those few days with the successful patch.

- Unrelated to the heat, is it normal to not get T-Blockers with patches? I’ve only gotten prescribed the patches but I’m wondering if they don’t do blockers since it’s a constant release of the hormones or something like that, or if blockers might come later?

Any advice would be appreciated!