Transgender people in the UK: their history, the history of their healthcare, and what needs to change today. Student: Stan Shaw, History & Politics
Key terms: AGAB: Assigned Gender At Birth
AMAB: Assigned Male AFAB: Assigned Female
MTF: male to female FTM: Female to Male TRA: Trans Rights Activist GRS: Gender Reassignment Surgery GIC: Gender Identity Clinic GIDS: Gender Identity Development Service (Gender Identity Clinic for minors) HRT: Hormone Replacement Therapy Executive summary: ● Trans people have been present throughout international and British history, and medical aid has played an important role in many individuals’ transitions for decades. ● There is a growing ‘gender critical’, or TERF, movement within the UK, which seeks to restrict the medical intervention available to trans people, alongside attacking their social rights. ● The current system by which NHS medical intervention works is incredibly damaging to trans people, driving many out of the country, into mental health crises, or semi- illegal self-medicating. ● The long wait lists, invasive medical questions for legal gender recognition, and general wording and attitude towards trans people and their medical care is outdated, and needs amending.
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