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I did everything they asked, played nicely, played their games. - Fought for a GP referral to GIC - Waited 16 months for a GIC appointment - Answered the invasive questions - Took their homeopathic doses of HRT - Saved the NHS money by having private SRS - Took statutory declarations 1/8

- Joined their register of trans people - Got a new birth certificate - Changed NHS number, lost medical history - Had GP refuse to continue prescription, ICB refused to help, switched GPs - Rejected from blood donation because they used male thresholds - Met with MP to discuss all this 2/8

- Had 100+ hours of electrolysis - Voice training - Pass as female all the time None of this is enough. None of this will ever be enough for the transphobes running through every level of Government, Healthcare and the judiciary. 3/8

From the 5th August, services will be forced to ask me to use the wrong toilets. If I was ever discriminated against, the law says the comparator would be a cis man. If I were to take it to a tribunal, I would be demonised in the press. The judiciary would allow me to be referred to as male. 4/8

The NHS are forcing 'Sex Observed at Birth' on medical records, and claiming it's a safety issue. Treating me as male puts me at serious health risks - trans people *will* die as a result of these changes. I am made to feel unwelcome in my home country. 5/8

What's the point in staying where I'm actively detested and hated by those who are meant to protect us and help us? There's 2 reasons I'm still here in this country, and they are 2 of the people I love dearly. I would walk through fire for them, and so I will - but I am done with the games. 7/8

I'm done nicely following the rules, being the nice trans person, always doing what's asked - I did that in good faith, and it turns out, it was all one-sided, they betrayed me. I have female ID, I have a female birth certificate; my stance now is that I'm cis. Try and prove otherwise. 8/8

Same… I played by the rules they set and have been spat on. Always “did the right thing”. Sacrificed years of my life and my financial future as a carer for my old mother. Would have done so anyways, but saved the state thousands. Nearly 60 years on this planet and not even a parking ticket.