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NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect (www.wearequeeraf.com)
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Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place

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[–] QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 23 points 1 day ago

Apparently they did this because WGS was prescribing surgeries at a rate higher than that of the UK branch, and they wanted to "investigate" to make sure they were necessary.

So why did WGS prescribe surgeries at a higher rate? The real reason is because WGS was seeing transpeople at a timely rate at all, the UK Branch was putting people on waiting lists for 25 years.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 48 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i hope jk rowling gets hit by a car and dragged for kilometres.

never forget she censored the report into the terfs role in the right wing attack on feminism and healthcare

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 2 days ago (2 children)

God, getting that news right before surgery must be devastating. Not that it's not devastating either way, but to have it snatched away right before it happens would make me insane.

[–] meejle@piefed.world 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There will be suicides for sure.

I mean, it already happens on the stupidly long waiting lists, so this basically guarantees it. So fucking pointlessly cruel.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: never kill yourself for something that's somebody else's fault.

[–] quantumgenderino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The cruelty is the point. They don't want trans people to exist, but they refuse to do something they believe would dirty their hands, so they force us into impossible situations, and when suicide obits pop up, they believe themselves to be good people because they knowingly ignore the connection between their actions and those of the dead.

[–] meejle@piefed.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, OK, point taken. I should probably have said, "Such a pointless fucking waste", or something.

I assume from your comment that you're trans... I'm curious, speaking as a dumb cis guy who's gradually realising no amount of "solidarity" is ever going to be enough... what do you think is the number one thing people could/should be doing to make life even a little bit easier for trans people? Is there anything you wish we knew? 'Cause the media sure isn't going to tell us if there is. 😬

Love from, a disabled gay who does his best but wants to do better 💖

[–] Amuxix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago

Visibly support us, show the world that we are just people. I think in general people are ignorant about us and most support us but when media vilifies us, people build the wrong idea about us and descriminating against becomes more acceptable to them. So anything to show them we are just people like everyone else is great

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's what Rowling and her Tories are hoping for. Conservatives worldwide are actively trying to genocide us.

E: to answer your other question: fight back and talk to cis people about it. We've been screaming from the rooftops for an eternity to deaf ears.

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago

I can't even image the heartbreak. WTF have these people done to earn this kind of torture!?

[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 38 points 2 days ago

Fuck all those right-wing bastards and everyone who panders to their fake concern

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So no allegations of medical errors, worse outcomes, or fraud, and the decision is to cut them off instead of actually doing any research into the issue? Seems like a stupid decision by people who need surgery to remove their heads from their asses.

[–] gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

It's not stupid, it's evil. They know this will kill people, and that's why they're doing it. I hope the lot of them jump into a wood chipper.

[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Removing their heads from their shoulders might be a more effective procedure

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 10 points 2 days ago

We won't know until we try, but OR time for a guillotine procedure will be much shorter than a rectocraniectomy and efficiency is always preferable

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Downright evil of the tories

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

it's labour doing this; blue labour, sure, but labour nonetheless

[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And this is why I hate liberals that can't understand why I might want to vote against a Democrat. If an anti-trans Democrat gets the nomination in 2028, I will not be able to vote for them. An anti-trans Democrat winning the election is a worse outcome for trans people than Republicans winning another 4 years. In that scenario, we can try again in four years to get a trans friendly Democrat elected. But if the transphobes take over the Democratic Party as well as the Republican Party? We've lost our rights for a generation. This will be one election were trans people absolutely cannot take the myopic path where we assume the election in front of us is the only one that will ever matter.

[–] QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

If there's an anti-trans democrat presidential nominee, I might go ahead and vote for the republican.

This is why I'm thankful Gavin Newsom seems to be coming around on trans people.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Article said it was initiated by a tory. But yes

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I feel like there are cases where an eye for an eye is warranted. This is one. The hatefulness, and just wanton cruelty of it all makes me sick to the stomach.