Comments on Becky's T-Blog: TG equality in healthcare

I work in an NHS Trust too and am open about who I...

2007-03-15T16:17:00.000Z

I work in an NHS Trust too and am open about who I am to my department and a number of other people.
I havent been to work as Connie but have gone out on social events in girl mode and have had no problems at all.
Everyone is fine and open with it.

Had the misforture to fall from a roof recently (d...

2007-03-15T13:22:00.000Z

Had the misforture to fall from a roof recently (dont ask) - any way spent the day in casualty lots of prodding and X-Rays thankfully nothing broken. All the staff I encountered were great. BTW Post of since 1998.

Paula

From personal experience i've found the nhs to be ...

2007-03-15T07:12:00.000Z

From personal experience i've found the nhs to be very good when it comes to equality towards transgender people. I've always, without exception been treated with dignity and respect, both at Charing Cross, and other 'non gender' related hospitals if you get my meaning. I think that the nhs is much more clued up about tg issues now, and certainly none of the Doctors, nurses, or other nhs staff have seemed phased or freaked out by my varying degrees of passablity!
Stuff i could see as being a potential set of problems would be things like addressing someone with the appropriate title ( Mr,Mrs,Ms etc) for the gender they seem to be adopting at any given time, or with those of us whose voices are a little deeper than the average woman's any phone conversations could be a little difficult if staff are not aware of tg issues, just on an identity type front, appart from the obvious potential embarressment.
I'll stop now as this is turning into a long comment :).......