Medical Collection

The Countersexual Museum of Transology

The NHS targets are for trans people to be seen at a gender clinic within 18 weeks of referral. The person at the top of the Northern Region Gender Dysphoria Service’s (NRGDS) waiting list in October 2024, has been waiting for 6 years and 3 months to be given a date for their first appointment. The Tavistock and Portman gender identity clinic currently have 16, 538 people waiting, with only a 101 first assessments offered in a month to people who were referred in March/April 2019.

The MoT’s collection of medical artefacts provides evidence of the tremendous impact these insufferable delays have on our community’s wellbeing. It also reveals the lengths people go to, in order to circumnavigate a socially-engineered system failure. From bathtub oestrogen home-engineered by trans women and supplied illicitly on the internet to those in desperate need, to fundraiser nightlife in queer clubs drawing funds from our community to step in for the state, trans healthcare is increasingly becoming a community provision despite the pride the UK takes in having a national health system.

They can block us, but they can’t stop us.