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This Week On - Sky Real Lives - SkyStyle
Friday 9pm on Sky Real Lives

Crossing gender is the most dramatic journey of all. This two-part special is an up-close and personal series of first-hand accounts from transsexuals about changing genders.

It’s also an insight into how far medicine has come in fulfilling the dreams of people who were born in the wrong body.

In the first Episode, Sky Real Lives looks at From her to him.

Annah wants to be a rock star. But there’s something she has to take care of before she reaches for the stars. Annah is flying to Montreal for sex reassignment surgery.
As you’ll see, in the beginning, Annah was Adam. Joining her for this moment of truth is ex-wife and best friend Cindy.

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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

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Came across this usuful list today, while searching the net:

Transgender Practitioners in the United Kingdom | UK | Mental Health and SRS Surgeons
Do you need a surgeon, psychiatrist, psychologist, counsellor or mental health practitioner who specialises in transgender care needs?

The Following Practitioner Guide is a useful tool to help you find a practitioner. Where possible we have followed up on recommendations, however, as always we rely on your recommendations do let us know. This is a free listings so no-one here has been listed by payment - unless it clearly says advertisement! Individuals are advised to make their own enquiries regarding qualifications and fees.

BBC - Radio 4 - Gender Dysphoria
In 1934 Bernadette was diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria a condition which in those days was barely heard of never mind understood.

Her parents were advised by medical professionals to “make a man of him” or he would become homosexual.

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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