@uhh_kate @PollyLlwyn 1/ It wasn't quite like that. It was a series on the woman, who wasn't following the NHS pathway. The crew got her in to see the founder of CX GIC (who was my psych 1971-73), in order to make him look bad on national TV, knowing he rejected some classes of patients, including…
@uhh_kate @PollyLlwyn 2/…those who like her who were involved in drag. He died shortly after.
He worked absolutely tirelessly for decades establishing a network of professionals who enabled a huge number (there being decades of backlog), often for free on the NHS, get where they needed to be, …
He worked absolutely tirelessly for decades establishing a network of professionals who enabled a huge number (there being decades of backlog), often for free on the NHS, get where they needed to be, …
@uhh_kate @PollyLlwyn 3/…including me - he certainly saved my life - in a situation where most had been, & some still were locked away in asylums & subjected to brain-wiping ECT.
In the process he was conservative about who he accepted as patients, or recommended for surgery. He was fighting…
In the process he was conservative about who he accepted as patients, or recommended for surgery. He was fighting…
@uhh_kate @PollyLlwyn 4/…opposition from peers, psychoanalysts, & NHS accountants constantly. I was pre-warned that he "wouldn't create lesbians" (so no married patients - hence Jan Morris going to Casablanca for SRS), & I - previously assexual - got traumatised whilst "proving heterosexuality" to…
@uhh_kate @PollyLlwyn 5/… him by dating straight men, as he instructed.
Benjamin had a strong policy opposite to that - no problem with sexuality but no dangerous dating, & even helped by explaining patients' trans background to potential partners.
Randall listed other absolute requirements at my…
Benjamin had a strong policy opposite to that - no problem with sexuality but no dangerous dating, & even helped by explaining patients' trans background to potential partners.
Randall listed other absolute requirements at my…
@uhh_kate @PollyLlwyn 6/…first consult - no drugs, must relocate near enough for him to help in emergencies, nothing to do with drag. But I left that 2 hour session with both hormones & an assurance he thought I would get SRS.
Randall didn't seek to be a monopoly - no other psychiatrists were…
Randall didn't seek to be a monopoly - no other psychiatrists were…
@uhh_kate @PollyLlwyn 7/…prepared to take the responsibility of getting us to a UK surgeon - but it meant those who didn't meet his criteria had no alternative, & hated him, & those of us who he approved. There were suicides.
That TV series - and I was privvy, bound to confidentiality, in horror,…
That TV series - and I was privvy, bound to confidentiality, in horror,…
@uhh_kate @PollyLlwyn 8/…to the production process - was retribution for those. The evening after filming Randall they were celebrating having "done him in". I'm pretty sure it killed him. The NHS had to bring Richard Green (of 'Sissy Boy Syndrome', a really tough lawyer as well as a sexologist)…
@uhh_kate @PollyLlwyn 9/… from the US to replace him.
I wasn't at all sure, at the time, if Julia & the gay production team weren't being used to end NHS trans treatment. It was at the a peak-TERF & evangelical time; Thatcher was newly in power; Raymond's book was fresh out; Johns Hopkins GIC was…
I wasn't at all sure, at the time, if Julia & the gay production team weren't being used to end NHS trans treatment. It was at the a peak-TERF & evangelical time; Thatcher was newly in power; Raymond's book was fresh out; Johns Hopkins GIC was…
@uhh_kate @PollyLlwyn 10/… under attack by McHugh in the US; care in France had been stopped by psychoanalysts; gender recognition in the UK had been stopped; Caroline Cossey's career had just been trashed. It ddn't seem right…
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