No, you are not paranoid. CX rapidly ends referrals, requiring a fresh visit to the local psych and a new first appointment, even if any RLE might now continue. In his book, Barrett says how important it is to ensure patients know that only the truly committed progress at a gender clinic. Even appointments missed due to transport disruption can lead to that. Despite CX having contracts with NHS areas hundreds of miles away.
When you think of the substantial fees CX charges for those strange sessions, filled with irrelevant and sometimes misleading chat, doesn't it look rather like the NHS is being truly scammed, and the patient being put through hoops for the sake of it? And for two years or more, when the SOC says 12 months, and the inventor of the protocol meant even 12 months to be very flexible, cutting it to three months in several obvious cases.
I went through Randall, when he was head of CX, but privately (on student's BUPA). He approved me for SRS 12 months after my name change, 15 after starting to live in role. But his NHS patients were required to perform a two year RLE, followed by five years more on the NHS surgery waiting list.
CX maintained that time period, claiming it clinically beneficial, right up to Labour requiring standard maximum waiting lists for surgery, which CX argued to be excepted from, but the minister insisted.
I was well ready for surgery after six months of RLE. We know doctors and other elevated professionals often get totally excused RLE, so why does the NHS have to pay useless psychiatric sessions over two years of RLE? It is the psychiatrists who demand it. The same ones who still only ask 12 months of their private (and non-professional) patients.
Perhaps it preferable work to dealing with the mentally ill.
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When you think of the substantial fees CX charges for those strange sessions, filled with irrelevant and sometimes misleading chat, doesn't it look rather like the NHS is being truly scammed, and the patient being put through hoops for the sake of it? And for two years or more, when the SOC says 12 months, and the inventor of the protocol meant even 12 months to be very flexible, cutting it to three months in several obvious cases.
I went through Randall, when he was head of CX, but privately (on student's BUPA). He approved me for SRS 12 months after my name change, 15 after starting to live in role. But his NHS patients were required to perform a two year RLE, followed by five years more on the NHS surgery waiting list.
CX maintained that time period, claiming it clinically beneficial, right up to Labour requiring standard maximum waiting lists for surgery, which CX argued to be excepted from, but the minister insisted.
I was well ready for surgery after six months of RLE. We know doctors and other elevated professionals often get totally excused RLE, so why does the NHS have to pay useless psychiatric sessions over two years of RLE? It is the psychiatrists who demand it. The same ones who still only ask 12 months of their private (and non-professional) patients.
Perhaps it preferable work to dealing with the mentally ill.