i don’t know how anyones first response to seeing the rampant transphobia in the uk isn’t abject heartbreak for all the trans people that live here
so many people’s views around transphobia in the uk start and end at “haha terf island”, and never stop for 5 minutes and think how god awful it is for trans people to be stuck here
I haven't seen anything about this on tumblr yet, but since April 2021 the NHS also discontinued all trans male bottom surgery, including for patients BETWEEN surgeries, with no plans to resume
In 2017 a transgender woman from the UK was granted residency in New Zealand on special humanitarian grounds as the tribunal recognised it wasn’t safe for her to return. Four years ago the situation was already hostile enough to create refugees and it’s intensified since then. It’s really very serious.
British transgender woman given residency in 'safer' New Zealand Tribunal says it would be ‘unduly harsh’ to force her to return to the UK after living discrimination-free in her adopted country the Guardian