Reply To: Why did you want to change gender?

[Sarah Baines]

I’m just interested in other peoples opinions, everyone seems to have their own reason. I wanted to change when i was a teenager, every year on my birthday i would wish that i was a woman but as i got older i saw programs such as boob jobs gone wrong and that really put me off; then i saw programs about men changing gender and that got me interested and about 4 year ago i started researching on the internet and found a shop in Manchester which sells HRT tablets for about £140 and so i took them for 2 year; the same shop also sold breast enlargement pills which i took but the were causing me some kind of reaction and so i had to stop taking them.  I went to my doctor who told me i wasn’t taking the right ones and that i could get them free on the NHS or for under £5 if not on the NHS; he also told me that i would have to live as a woman for 1 year before i could see a specialist; I rang them up last year to see what was happening and was told i would have to wait another year.  Sometime between May and December i should be seeing someone unless were still in lockdown.  It’s cost me a fortune in transitioning; and being told by someone that i’m delusional & not right in the head was insulting and offensive.