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Petition update, 13 August 2008

More details from petition creator

The current PCT funded NHS allows each PCT to effectively decide how they will manage their budget. This means that the amount and the quality of funded provision of healthcare associated with Gender re-assignment towards transsexuals largely depends on where you live which cannot be right at all. There has to be a fairer system, which would allow equal access to the same healthcare regardless of where you live.

The reality of the NHS at present is that one PCT in one area will fund almost all associated procedures, where as another will fund none at all. What are these associated procedures? they are as follows; Facial hair removal, breast augmentation, trachea shave and rhinoplasty.

These are absolutely essential for a transwoman to live successfully in her chosen gender role, my PCT is calling these procedures cosmetic, which is not the case at all.

What this petition asks is that the Prime minister and his cabinet colleague the Health Minister end this unfair system of healthcare provision.

Current signatories

Stephanie Butterfield, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Owen Blacker
• Faye Gibbins
• Krissie Pearse
• Simon Kirkham
• Sasha MacGowan
• Lewis Turner
• Emma Smith
• Louis
• Polly Conroy
• Michelle Appleton
• Paul Kempton
• Jessica Cole
• Tracy Kempton
• Steph Jones
• Carol Robson
• PAULA SYMONDS
• Tamsin Piper
• Claire Pearce
• Anne M Goodwin
• Sarah Brown
• Leah Wood
• Diane Canham
• R Burg
• Jack Martin Hallett
• Jennifer Wigham
• R Sands
• Benjamin Thom
• gerard scott
• Joe Swift
• EmmaJacobs
• Jan Heiland
• Natasha
• Vikki Landers
• Shelley Whitney
• Sherri Joyce
• Denise Anderson
• Tim Terry
• rose ella marie webster
• Lucy Coleman
• Sue Sherratt
• vicky martin
• Jessica Hart
• Sally Withers
• Lucy Tolliday
• Alison O'Kane
• claire jenkins
• Andrew Main
• Graham Hunter
• Peter Barber
• Jasmin Ditcham
• Michelle Dibble
• Debbie Joanne Davies
• Ryan Babes
• The Rev'd Sarah Jones
• Alison
• mair davies
• Helen Belcher
• Suzy Scott
• Penny Cox
• Sally Williams
• Andrea
• Jak Radice
• Anthony Griffin
• Steve Paske
• Nicki Barr
• Eugenia Ravens
• Adele Stevens
• Jenny Roberts
• Denise Robotham
• Samantha Ann Moore
• Alison Jones
• Mark Oddy
• Alexander william Hassett
• Sally Payne
• Jade Woods
• E O'Kane
• Tess Stenson
• Tamzin Beauchamp
• Jane Brook
• Judith Doyle
• J N Deakin
• michelle buckley
• angelladeesherriffe
• phil page
• Kelly Tonks
• Sandra Robinson
• Mirjam Bader
• Debbie Knight
• Dr. Andrea Bathie
• Peter A. Goode
• Christine Betts
• Fiona Sinclair
• Claire Rule
• Ruth Pearce
• Ellen Lee
• sophi white
• Phillippa Scrafton
• Patricia Newman
• gareth lee
• Andrew Jones
• Sylvia Knight
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• Anna Langley
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