In our analysis, which uses figures from March 2024 to March 2025 painstakingly put together through a series of FOIs, we can show the average estimated waiting time to access an initial appointment at a gender clinic is now 25 years across the UK. Examining different regions sees this change dramatically, with worse results in both Scotland and Northern Ireland – where some people will wait as long as six decades to get help.
The national picture shows waiting times that far exceed the NHS’s recommended maximum of 18 weeks. But drilling down into the data reveals huge disparities across the UK.
In England, the average waiting time for a first appointment stands at 12 years. In Wales, it’s two years. People in Scotland face a lifetime of waiting, with an average wait time of 58 years. In contrast, Northern Ireland has seen a significant ‘improvement’ in waiting times: Trans+ people will now face an average wait time of 41 years, down from 151 years the last time this data was collected.
Disgustingly cruel
The population of Scotland is ~5.5 million. Say 1% are trans and they all need a gender clinic appointment. Assume one person operates one clinic for all of Scotland, let’s call this person Angus. Angus works an 8 hour day for 250 days a year. Each appointment is 1 hour.
That gets you 2,000 appointments in a year - so you would work through the entire population in ~25 years. Obviously terrible… but how do you get to 200+ years?! Angus would basically need to see one patient each day and then just go and do something else for the next 7 hours.
Obviously there’s a lot wrong with my example, but remember I’m assuming only one provider for all of Scotland.
Yeah Angus is probably a full time endocrinologist working on a range of things and he only works the gender clinic on a Wednesday morning.
Probably this.
I would reckon that most patients needs more than one appointment. And then all the time of Angus’ workday is probably not spent on appointments, even if he works full time in the gender clinic.
Angus is doing his best but he simply can’t keep up with the workload.
I’m reminded of the TTRPG some British trans person wrote where the goal is to become an undead creature in order to get to the top of the waiting list and actually get your gender clinic appointment. A good satire of a horrible situation.
That’s wild. Someone needs to liberate the oppressed peoples of that island.
Ah fuck - cannae hae shit in TERF island
This is why universal healthcare doesn’t work, commies
TERF island.
