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‘Each day it knocks my confidence’: Trans man crowdfunds for hormones to lower his voice because NHS waitlist is too long

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Stockport, has been on a waiting list at the gender identity clinic for four months. He has been told he may have to wait up to five years before he gets an appointment.He says waiting for an appointment, and not having a clear time frame in mind, is having a detrimental effect on his mental health and is stopping from living his life as the person he is.“I’ve always known from an early age growing up that I wasn’t in the right body for me,” AJ tells the Manchester Evening News.“I’d cringe at my birth name and would always get so embarrassed in the girl’s changing rooms."“I realised I wanted to transition when I was 16 but I wasn’t out at the time.

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