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Rachel Taylor MP told the UK Parliment, \"waiting times for gender affirming healthcare are nothing short of a national scandal\". Speaking, using almost word for word our reporting in the Gender Clinic Files - an investigation into the length of waiting times for NHS gender identity clinics (GICs) - she set out how 48,000 adults remain on waiting lists, with an average waiting time of 25 years. In one clinic, we found a 224-year wait if you joined the list in March, three times the average UK life expectancy. More than a lifetime of waiting.


This week on the QueerAF podcast, Ludovic Parsons looks back at the joint investigation we did with Claire's Trans Talks and What The Trans?! to ask, has anything changed - and more critically, what would a gender healthcare system built for Trans+ people, not cisgender doctors, even look like?


Dive deeper, with our investigations and long-reads into UK Trans+ Healthcare:




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