Women Thinking Trans Issues

Trans Women publish report into access to NHS services

Our Women Thinking Trans Issues group identified the unequal provision of gender reassignment services across NHS health boards as the issue they wanted to research. The group interviewed trans women about their experiences and also spoke to health boards. The result is a report which reveals that gender reassignment services are a postcode lottery for transitioning women.

Download the report here: - A Report on Findings of Participatory Action Research on the Inequality of Access to NHS Service by Trans Women or request a hard copy from info@engender.org.uk

The interviews with senior health service officers can be viewed here

The report was launched at an event in the Royal college of Physicians in Edinburgh on 29th June 2011.  Engender Convener, Marsha Scott opened the evening and introduced Niki Kandirikiria, Engender Executive Director (pictured below).  Niki  spoke about the Equality Counting project and the audience also heard from Katherine Burrows (pictured above) and Lesley Stafford from the trans group who explained the need for this reseach and stressed the importance of gender reassignment services to transitioning women and the negative health effects of delays and lack of provision in the current system.  Alastair Pringle, Head of Patient Focus and Equalities, Scottish Government Health Directorates spoke of the vital role such research plays in shaping service provision.