Submitted on Thursday 25th April 2019
Rejected on Thursday 30th May 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make waiting times at Gender Identity Clinics for transgender people shorter
Currently transgender people around the UK are facing waiting times of up to 2.5 YEARS simply for a first referral (THIS IS NOT TREATMENT!) The UK government needs to increase funding to Gender Identity Clinics, Decrease waiting times for GIC’s, as well as open more (there are currently only 7!)
There is currently no collective data on statistics of transgender people living in the UK, however it is estimated to be around 650,000, imagine 650,000 having to go through one of 7 severely underfunded and understaffed clinics. THIS NEEDS TO CHANGE. Please sign this petition to show support and ultimately MAKE CHANGE. The unfortunate truth is that, for some transgender people, the waiting time can be the time between life and death.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/234989
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