Wait times are objectively better in the UK than the US.
Unless, ofc, you're trans. I mean, i'm not doubting that the US healthcare system is a total fuck where average people have to wait longer than under the NHS, and i would prefer single payer over what my country has any day as well, not to mention that any kind of public health care beats the nonstop human rights violation that is "healthcare" in the US.
i'm just saying that the UK healthcare system is purposefully set up to genocide trans people. i'm not being hyperbolic here, that's just how trans healthcare works there. you just let people wait long enough for treatment so they decide to kill themselves. i thought waiting lists here in Germany are bad. Then i learned that it's completely normal in the UK to wait four years or more until you can get an appointment for a first assessment at a gender clinic. Not any kind of treatment, just a preliminary talk with a specialist. It took me 9 months here in Germany to get on HRT due to the long waiting lists of the few non-gatekeepy psychologists willing to see trans people combined with the waiting lists of trans-inclusive endocrinologists, and that was already wearing me so thin i can't describe it as anything but torture. But what the UK does is an outright attempt to drive us to suicide.
here's the thing though, if you are bougie enough or have enough of an online fanbase to get a gofundme to afford to go private for trans healthcare, it's cheaper than the us with shorter wait times
Unless, ofc, you're trans. I mean, i'm not doubting that the US healthcare system is a total fuck where average people have to wait longer than under the NHS, and i would prefer single payer over what my country has any day as well, not to mention that any kind of public health care beats the nonstop human rights violation that is "healthcare" in the US.
i'm just saying that the UK healthcare system is purposefully set up to genocide trans people. i'm not being hyperbolic here, that's just how trans healthcare works there. you just let people wait long enough for treatment so they decide to kill themselves. i thought waiting lists here in Germany are bad. Then i learned that it's completely normal in the UK to wait four years or more until you can get an appointment for a first assessment at a gender clinic. Not any kind of treatment, just a preliminary talk with a specialist. It took me 9 months here in Germany to get on HRT due to the long waiting lists of the few non-gatekeepy psychologists willing to see trans people combined with the waiting lists of trans-inclusive endocrinologists, and that was already wearing me so thin i can't describe it as anything but torture. But what the UK does is an outright attempt to drive us to suicide.
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here's the thing though, if you are bougie enough or have enough of an online fanbase to get a gofundme to afford to go private for trans healthcare, it's cheaper than the us with shorter wait times
iirc it's pretty cheap to just buy the meds online
the expensive part is getting a doctor to make sure you're doing it right :agony-shivering:
eh, i guess cheap is relative, but it's a pretty hefty price tag for me
and yeah, the doctor is the real rub