u/Ok_Dragonfruit4032

(UK based but open to international opinions too)

The uni I am planning to go to to study offers the HSE, but I have some health issues and the cost is prohibitive where I am, not to mention I live inland with no ability to do the practice dives required.

Ignoring issues like work experience and job shortages, can I reasonably get a job where I work on a boat without having that qualification? Can I get it later on?

I was lucky enough to stop in the station and disembark fairly quickly, but there was a train 200m ahead stuck on the tracks and i'm highly curious, did you all get off okay? How long did it take?

Like I get not assuming that the patient you're seeing is male and then I have a uterus etc, but my gender marker isn't changed and I thought you could just change your title by deed?

I wrote 1st June instead of 1st July on my deed but that shouldn't affect it right?

It's done though!

I thought about matching my tie colour to her dress or something cute like that, but she's wearing a black dress (which she looks gorgeous in btw) so I'm probably just gonna be in a regular suit. Do you have any ideas for an accessory or colour we could wear to tie our outfits together?

Been into town a couple of times and they're not there anymore

My initial consultation was 14th May (& £900 which I'm really scared that I've wasted), I've still not got the report back from the psychiatrist but I have emailed them again and got an automated response so I hope I'll receive that soon.

He told me I should get my care through an endocrinologist rather than my GP, and the earliest endo appointment I can get is September, also private and a further £300. He also said I would need to change my name before an endocrinologist would prescribe anything for me, which a lot of people said was wrong.

I realise that 5 months is very quick for a lot of people on the NHS and I'm eternally grateful I get to go private but I guess there's just questions at the back of my head. I feel I made the wrong decisions from choosing a practitioner to making the wrong appointments. Help please!!!! How fast is it actually feasible to access testosterone privately?

This was what I wanted anyway, but I'm literally in the middle of my a levels right now and I don't know everything works. He was really vague about my next steps too so I'm really confused

This was a couple months ago, but still weighing on my mind. I know I don't pass, even with short hair and binding, but I felt like wearing a skirt, so I did. I thought a trans liberation event would be the last place people assume expression == identity. My outfit was shirt, waistcoat, tie, skirt, boots, and a bit of black eyeliner. I even wore a he/him pronoun badge.

The ***leader*** calls me she to my face, then goes "ooooh sorry, I didn't know your pronouns." I feel the least amount you can do if you're leading a trans event is work on binary defaultism, not least assuming someone's pronouns.

It drives me up the wall that even in my progressive (or as good as it gets anyway) city, there's an assumption that feminine trans men don't exist.