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.
The medical collection
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Empty Estradiol Gel Box With T'his is Freedom' Written On It
MOT/2024/NDOTC/GLAS/010
Tag This box of Estradiol gel represents the sense of freedom I feel as I begin HRT. For the first time in my life, I am able to finally love my body and my life as I live as my authentic self.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Hormones, Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Dimension Description MOT/2024/NDOTC/GLAS/010.1 - Box
The image shows an estradiol gel box with "This is freedom" written, symbolizing personal
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Empty Hormone Box
MOT/2024/NDOTC/DUND/002
Tag The box from my first ever HRT injection - MAY '21 The most affirming thing I've ever done
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Hormones, Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 2.5 cm Width 6.5 cm Depth 2.5 cm
An empty hormone box which is holographic and a brown tag with writing on it next to it.
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Empty Testogel Bottle
MOT/2024/NDOTC/NORW/017
Tag I started testosterone on 14th Nov 2022 This bottle is a physical representation of how far I have come in my transition journey
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Hormones, Medical
- Place
- Norfolk Heritage Centre, Norwich
- Dimensions
- Height 17 cm Width 6.4 cm
A bottle of Testogel which is white with a blue label.
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Epilepsy Infomation With Trans Flag
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LEED/001
Tag Raising awareness of epileptic first aid in the transgender community
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 230 mm Width 306 mm Depth 53 mm
The image shows a canvas, colored in the the trans pride colours, with epilepsy information, including emergency instructions. There are two Lego figures demonstrating the recovery position.
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Estradot 100mg Box
MOT000184
Tag These saved my life in more than one way
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- Hormones, Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- 2x Estradot boxes. Estradot Estradiol 100 micrograms/24 hours 1-month pack, Novartis. Blue/green box open contains 4 x unused hormone patches
- Dimensions
- Height 9 cm Width 2 cm Depth 8.5 cm
One blue box with greens stripe reading "Estradot 100 micrograms/ 24 hours" and one blue box with pink stripe reading "Estradot 50 micrograms/24 hours"
- Estradot Box MOT000061
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- Hormones, Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Estradot box Estradot transdermal patch; box lid cut off packaging, 05 Jul 16 prescribed to Katherine Davern.
- Dimensions
- Height 90 mm Width 90 mm
A box of Estradot. The lid of the packaging has been cut off.
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Evorel Estradiol Box
MOT000196
Tag I was eventually prescribed hormones and although I used Oestrogen in pill form until GRS, afterwards I went onto transdermal patches. - EVOREL 100. Unfortunately I had a skin reaction and have since moved onto Oestogel. CHRISTINA N.
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- Hormones, Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Evorel 100 Estradiol box. Evorel 100 Estradiol box for hormone patches, opened. Prescription label reads Mrs Christina Beata Niewiadowski.
- Dimensions
- Height 14 cm Width 1.5 cm Depth 10 cm
Light grey "Evorel 100" box which has been opened at the top. There is a white prescription label in the bottom left corner of the front of the box.
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Evorel Estradiol Box and Open Sachets
MOT000194
Tag These are my estrogen patches... Without these I was a singularly miserable person. I have always been confused as to why some people are SO adamant that I should not be allowed them.
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- Hormones, Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Box of Everol hormone patches. Evorel Estradiol box for hormone patches, opened. Contains open empty sachets x2. Front of box has 4 used patches stuck to it over prescription label.
- Dimensions
- Height 14 cm Width 1.5 cm Depth 10 cm
Grey box reading "Evorel 100" and other information on the prescription.
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Face Mask in Trans Flag Colours
MOT/2024/NDOTC/MANC/025
Tag The face mask I bought For my Top Surgery consultations. The consultations were during the covid periods after the main lock down was over.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 7.3 cm Width 9 cm
A colorful face mask lies beneath a note, possibly explaining its significance or context.
- Five Testosterone Enant Ampoules Boxes MOT000179
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- Hormones, Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- 5x boxes of Testosterone Enanthate ampoules. Testosterone Enant 250mg amps; 5 x empty boxes prescribed to Mr E-J Scott 20/01/2016
- Dimensions
- Height 7 cm Width 2 cm Depth 6 cm
A stack of boxes which are testosterone Enant.
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Fluoxetine Prescription Box
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LEED/017
Tag Fluoxetine, 3x 20mg Daily This was/is the first anti-depressants to work for me. They have kept me stable since 2018, through starting T (2019) and the 6 year wait for top surgery (2017-2023). I'm still here with help from these meds.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 90 mm Width 130 mm Depth 5 mm
An green and white empty box for Fluoxetine 20mg. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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Goober Toy - Bread Bag With Ripped Up Documents Inside
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/036
Tag THIS IS "GOOBER", A SOFT TOY I MADE USING A BREAD BAG, A PEN, AND RIPPED UP DOCUMENTS FROM MY MEDICAL & LEGAL. TRANSITION BACK IN POLAND, INCL. MY DIAGNOSIS OF "TRANSSEXUALISM". I KEPT GOOBER IN MY HOUSE UNTIL HE WANTED TO MOVE ON AND INTO THE ARCHIVE. - ALEKS J.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Artwork, Medical, Trans Identity
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 360 mm Width 200 mm Depth 100 mm
A clear plastic bread bag filled with ripped up paper documents and knotted. A cartoon face of a monster has been drawn on the bag. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.