What to do if refused funding for gender reassignment
April 12th, 2008 —
Kaz
1. Ensure you have the full support of your GP and of any other specialists you have been seeing. If your GP is unwilling or unsure about prescribing hormones or referring you for surgery, consider changing your GP. You can do this through your local Family Practitioner Committee (look in the phone book) who should be able to find you a sympathetic GP in your area.
Remember that a fund-holding practice can decide for itself whether to pay for gender reassignment for a patient. If it’s sympathetic, you are home and dry; if unsympathetic you have little chance, unless you can persuade them to change their minds - it’s probably easier to change your GP.
2. Go and see your MP. MPs can have enormous influence in individual cases like this, and are often successful on their own in getting a decision not to fund reversed. Don’t write - go to his or her surgery and talk to them face to face to ask for their support.
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