About the TranScribe Health Coalition
TransScribe Health Coalition Ireland are a collective of feminist accomplices behind Terfs Out the Repeal movement and members of the trans community who have created an anonymous platform for people to share experiences of trans healthcare in Ireland.
We are anonymous as we believe no one person or group of people should have ownership or attempt to profiteer over the voices and experiences of trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people in sharing their stories and experiences of accessing healthcare. We wish to protect ourselves and our community from attacks on our personal and professional lives. We also do not wish to contribute to the harmful illegitimate practices of courting ‘debate’ or ‘balance’ that takes place in mainstream media when discussing the lives of marginalised people by pitting minorities against those who wish to deny our existence and autonomy.
Trans people have been intimidated into silence with many people feeling unable to speak out about their healthcare experiences. People who have shared their experiences publicly face harassment and intimidation by transphobes and TERFs and run the risk of being threatened with legal action and interference in their GP care by clinicians in the national gender service. Many people who experience traumatising and stigmatising psychiatric assessments, who are forced to bring family members into assessments, forced to prove that they have been living ‘full-time’ and face inadequate HRT treatment fear complaining through official HSE channels as they feel they run the risk of healthcare being threatened by vengeful clinicians.
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Trans people who legitimately access hormones through channels other than those approved by the NGS are having misleading and threatening letters sent to their GPs resulting in their healthcare being stopped and denied. People moving to Ireland from abroad, who are already on hormones are having their care halted. As a result, trans people outside of or unable to access the gatekeeping system often must resort to self-medication and are being denied access to routine blood testing through their GPs. A combination of long waiting times, traumatising assessments and lack of bodily autonomy takes a massive toll on trans people’s lives and mental health.
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