Transexuals

[Losty]

Does NHS cover mental health care?

Yeh it covers mental health care. If you didn't notice that I didn't mention insurance and you're not too familiar with the NHS you might have also missed my post afterwards where I said that my opinion on SRS being free on the NHS would change if they weren't already suffering with funding and waiting times in accident and emergency wards.

The NHS does have a lot of funding but at the moment people seem to be protesting that there isn't enough funding, waiting times are way too long and so on.

So if there were not as many complaints about waiting times and treatment in emergency situations, and it wasn't in the newspapers about an NHS crisis and doctors protesting and so on, then I would fully endorse people who wanted surgery to become whatever they want, have speech therapy to align to their new gender, mental therapy before and after, follow up appointments and so on.

There's a difference between what I'm actually saying and saying there should be no surgeries for people who want to change gender or physically change gender.
Funding for cancer treatment and support isn't great in the NHS so they have charitable donations for this, I don't see why there can't be a foundation of charitable donations for people who want surgery to change gender, maybe there already is, I don't know.

I'm basically saying that it's my opinion, not an expert opinion by far.  That if the NHS is having trouble with waiting times and funding for emergency services that priority should overtake the priority of emotional distress to some degree, but I'm sure there'd be some exceptions in which I'd probably change my mind about that.

Yea, I missed a lot of stuff when I was sleeping xD
And I had been talking to steberben (sp) too so I got mixed up. Sounds like you guys have a crappy health care system. Not as bad as ours but still crappy.