Last month I was down in Exeter doing some training for Healthwatch Devon. It was a great session, and the people there seems to know a lot about the subject. That’s because they had been spending a lot of time looking into trans equality issues in the NHS. The results of that work have now been published. You can read their report here.

I’m very encouraged by this. It is one thing for the government to make noises about the NHS failing trans people. It is quite another for the NHS’s own customer engagement service to come to the same conclusion, and start trying to do something about it. Hopefully this will be the start of a continuing effort to improve access to healthcare for trans people all over the country.

Update:

Here is the official Healthwatch Devon statement on the report.

And here is some BBC coverage of the launch of the report.