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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.

Click here to read the full article What to do if refused funding for gender reassignment | Press For Change

I can’t believe that in ten days time it will be a year since I had my gender surgery by Mr Tim Terry, the year has gone so fast and with only one miner niggle and no other problems at all.

Everything is really coming together now the laser treatments are certainly working and I feel so much better in myself, it seems like only a few months ago since I was travelling to Leicester and have my surgery, I just still can’t believe it’s a year, wow.

I must say thank you to everyone who has and who still are supporting me and the work that I am doing trying to get the Health Commission Wales (HCW) to get of their preverbial fat backsides and help those diagnosed with gender dysphoria with some sort of funding for surgery, but at the present it still seems like we are all banging our heads against a brick wall, as there is still no sign of them actually budging on their bizarre ideas of there been no “clinical need” for surgery, but, the fight goes on..

For those who are looking for a surgeon to perform GRS and for those that are interested here’s some information on Mr Terry the Consultant Urological Surgeon who performed my surgery in April last year at the Leicester Nuffield Hospital.

Mr Tim Terry

Tim Terry is a Consultant Urological Surgeon based at Leicester General and Leicester Nuffield Hospitals . His undergraduate training was at King’s College and St George’s Hospital Medical School , London qualifying in 1975.His post-graduate training was at Southampton, London and Leeds University Hospitals and his qualifications include BSc., MB BS., MRCS LRCP., FRCS (Eng)., MS (London ).He is a recipient of the Hallett Prize (RCS England), Patey Prize (Surgical Research Society) and the Alan Edwards Prize (Royal Society of Medicine). He was appointed as a Consultant Urological Surgeon to Leicester University Hospitals in 1990 with a main interest in reconstructive urology.

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Got a message today from Mr Terry’s secretary for an appointment to see Mr Terry to be knocked out for five minutes while he removes the “hair ball” that has developed recently, it seems a long way to go, but it has to be done, so it’s a case of stopping over night for the appointment as it’s early in the morning, it’s easier than travelling in the early of the morning.

I’ll post again regarding the minor op after I have seen Mr Terry..

I got back late last night after seeing Mr Terry at the Nuffield Hospital, so I was too tired to blog last night, so here it is now:

It seems that the bleeding that I developed from my neo-vagina is from a “hair ball” that has developed, this is one of the problems that can happen after gender surgery and is nothing to worry about, so it’s now a simple case of making a day appointment to be knocked out for five minutes while Mr Terry scrapes out the “hair ball”,  hopefully this will be done next week, I’ll make my appointment on Monday morning..