I’m just trying to summarize my thoughts because I’m dead inside. Just slap the like button or something.
AMAB 37 Sweden. All I want is to " :3 " 😭
My local clinic, where I have my family physician, told me about three weeks ago that they cannot refer me to a gender identity clinic, because they “lack the knowledge. Please ask your psychologist (WHICH I DON’T HAVE?!) to refer you.” So I did something called a self referral (direct translation from Swedish), which entails writing to the specialist (in this case, gender identity) clinic on my own. Three weeks later, today, I received a letter from the specialists saying “we cannot accept and evaluate self referrals, no matter how well written it is, because it often lacks vital information necessary to place you in queue for evaluation. It falls on your local clinic to acquire the necessary information to refer you to us.” Fuck me from every direction, including the fourth dimension. I immediately called my local clinic to book an appointment with their psychologist. On Thursday, over the phone, I’m expected to explain myself, my dysphoria, once again. Tomorrow I’m meeting a person who could potentially become my first new friend in like ten years. I don’t have the emotional capacity to have anxiety over this shit now. 😭🤮
Done. Thx.
Hi, fellow swede here going through the same process, luckily i had another therapist who could refer me to the right person. However, heres the general outline of what you need.
You need a “remiss” from your health center to a special therapist that can determine whether they should actually send another “remiss” for a gender dysphoria evaluation. Not every therapist is allowed to send that apparently. Gender dysphoria is a required diagnosis to actually get help and only a limited amount of teams can actually do that evaluation.
You can always change your health centre on 1177 if they refuse to send the initial one but that might include more wait time before you can actually get in contact with them. Also, do remember, the current government has ruined the waiting queues for health care in general but trans care is especially fucked, worst case ive read is 6 years before an evaluation and then you havent even started or planned any treatment yet.
We do have “vårdgaranti”, dont forget that, which means if youre in queue for over 6 months you can ask any other clinic on the country that is allowed to do the evaluation to take you in, cutting the queue times if youre able to travel. I dont know how this affects costs though, you might have to pay for the visit then.
I wish you all the best of luck friend! Hopefully we can both get the help we need ❤️
Also, if anyone has any information on the private health care and if they can speed things up in any way id be very thankful. I thought they couldnt do anything in this situation but reading through the other comments it seems like they might?