Kira Herdman

First thing first. HAPPY PRIDE ! ! This will be my last blog post purely about my experience with GenderGP as I now have the HRT that I have been after since coming out 3 ½ years ago. From next month (I started HRT on the 24th May 2024) I will be talking about the experience of HRT month by month but also when I have dealing with GenderGP I will also talk about them as well. So, how did I get my HRT. Well last month I left you with I was contacting GenderGP as I had heard nothing from them. I had the 15 minute meeting that cost me £7.99 and was told the system had not recognised I had paid as I paid after I filled out the initial form. I also paid £15 for an independent prescription that I will talk about later. After about a week after this appointment I got 2 Treatment Recommendation’s. (They was different, one just had Estradiol Tablets (Estrogen) while the other had that and Finasteride (Testosterone Blockers)). I waited a week for the prescription to come through from the indepen

As promised here is my month 2 experience going with GenderGP as I am fed up with waiting for the NHS GIS. So far I am disappointed. I had my Information Gathering Service session on the 16 th of last month. I was accepted that I should be on HRT. This meeting was pretty painless. All they do is ask you questions about when you was growing up, how Gender Dysphoria affected you and how it affects you now. They also ask if you have socially transitioned or not, if you have changed your name and do you live as you’re the gender you should have been born in. The meeting is about 40 minutes. You have to book another meeting after 3 months to see how things are going then its every 6 months after that. After that, they said it should be about 1 week and I would hear back from them. This was almost 3 weeks ago and I have not heard back from them at the time of writing this blog post. I have set up a meeting for Tuesday the 7 th , at a cost of £7.99, to find out why I have not heard b