Experiences of trans and gender diverse young people
Finding information
We spoke to trans and gender diverse young people about the sources of information that they found most useful in their healthcare journeys. The young people we spoke to found information from a range of different places:
- Other people in the trans community
- Online
- NHS, doctors and other healthcare professionals and;
- Books, reports and journals
Other people in the trans community
Many of the trans and gender diverse young people we spoke to found information through other members of the trans community. This was sometimes a trans friend, a co-worker or people they met through an LGBT group or trans charity. Sometimes it was through seeing other trans people online or chatting to trans people online.
Max talked about the benefit of having trans co-workers working for an LGBTQ+ charity and how he asked them for information. Henry agreed ‘a lot of that information I got second-hand from people I knew… it wasn’t really from the healthcare professionals themselves.’ Rosa said, ‘Most of the understanding I got of trans healthcare was from interacting with other trans people after I’d come out and just seeing them talk about their experiences’. Anderson also said that getting information ‘was very much word of mouth’.
Tori talks about reaching out to a trans friend at work and gaining a better insight into her identity.
Tori talks about reaching out to a trans friend at work and gaining a better insight into her identity.
So the first ever start of it, I kind of, well I started to look on, online but without having any information you know you just put in you know “Want to be a woman,” or whatever, and its, it’s such a wide variety of stories and information that it was hard to kind of try and pinpoint how I was feeling. So what I started to do was kind of reach out to trans women, I only ever reached out to two, and one of them actually became one of my really good friends who I met through working on, on the scene, so she came in and I, I knew of her anyway but didn’t know her at all but I knew she was transitioning, so as soon as she came into the bar, which was freaky really because I’d only been back at work for a couple of months, so I’d only just started to realise that this was what I wanted to do. And she doesn’t go out that often at all, so the fact that we kind of met and it was, it was kind of perfect timing.
And she is a very incredible open, you know, flamboyant person, she was very confident in, in what she was doing so I outright asked her, I was sitting on the door taking her money to get into the club and I just said, “I would love to just sit down and just ask you a few questions really.” “Just really get an insight on what you were feeling so I can identify whether I’m feeling the same.” Or even if it’s just a few things you know, everybody’s different. So, you can’t go on completely with somebody else’s, but it’s a great way for, you know, for some information and insights. So that night we ended up going to a bar after I’d worked. We got stupidly drunk and then we went back to my apartment in town and she, we sat up till six, seven o’clock in the morning just talking about everything, literally everything that she ever felt and you know her story kind of was very different to mine, her family wasn’t, I mean they support it, and she goes around and sees them often, but nothing like what my family were like, you know my family gave me the wings and just let me fly, whereas for a long time they still called her, her male name which I felt didn’t support her as much as what she should have been. But a lot of the things that we spoke about were very similar, and I noticed that our stories even though they were so different, our feelings were very similar. So that was my first, my first kind of information. And then I found a girl on, like on Facebook, we became like, you know alright friends as well. I don’t see her that often, but she was a friend of a friend. So yeah, she gave me some insight too. She was younger than me, whereas you know my other friend was older than me, and it was just again, it was just, it was almost like you know get through and see you know if, if it is continual and it was, so after that I really just knew that I was gonna, you know grab, grab the wheel and, and take it off straightaway.
Noelle thought this could be because ‘trans people themselves who had gone through the process had like a much better idea of how it went’. CJ added ‘[trans people] have to become the experts about our own treatment pathways, right from jump.’
Young people felt that the trans community were often able to share useful information about healthcare they couldn’t get from anywhere else. This included information about medication, side effects, waiting times, and experiences of medical clinics.
Begam talks about accessing a local LGBT centre and the struggle to find someone trans to talk to.

Begam talks about accessing a local LGBT centre and the struggle to find someone trans to talk to.
It was very difficult, you know, like, I went to there’s a centre in [city] called the LGBT centre. It was there I think a, it used to be [place] in [city] and I went up there one day and I spoke to an advisor and there was no trans advisers up there at the time, like. This was several years ago, I think sixteen or seventeen years ago. I didn’t even know there was-if I could speak to someone about trans issues because there was no-one there to talk to. When I went recently, I attended the had employed trans advisors but there just wasn’t enough information out there like who I could speak to. There were like men who were like, gay or lesbian women but this was it. There wasn’t any trans individuals or they weren’t that knowledgeable or specialised on trans issues but when I approached Terence Higgins Trust in [city] they put me forward to a trans worker who was just having one session about all of these issues, these concerns. I think in [city] there was nothing at the time where I was about my own childhood, childhood.
Jack talked to his trans friend who shared his experiences at ‘the clinics’ and he then knew what to expect with the referral process and waiting times. Evelyn spoke about her friend sharing information about the side effects of hormone blockers ‘before I got onto blockers, which helped me learn a few things about side effects.’ Noelle found helpful information about ‘waiting times and how you can often have to jump through hoops just to get a referral.’
Summer feels ‘there is a lot of misinformation in the trans community’ and shares her experience of attending trans groups.
Summer feels ‘there is a lot of misinformation in the trans community’ and shares her experience of attending trans groups.
I found that there is some, there is a lot of misinformation in the trans community. That’s one like main bug bear I’d say. Of course, the other main bug bear is the waiting lists and the fact that trans healthcare isn’t a priority of the NHS. If you go private, you know, exorbitant cost of it. It’s pretty bad. And the struggle to get on hormones in this country is quite disgraceful. Like finding out about trans healthcare, I think well I went to the first trans reach out and there was some people talking about the GIC and I found out about that. And so, I feel like, yeah, going to trans groups and stuff, the information has been readily available. There are always people who know stuff. The problem is that they are also the people who don’t know stuff, but talk anyway. That’s how misinformation happens and kind of, because my experience with the hearing about trans healthcare, yeah. I think it’s been what’s been quite difficult for me is, finding out about all the options there are and then which one to go for because I have this kind of selection anxiety. You know, like if you have all these options, for example, moving in here, oh we have to choose like an energy provider now. Well, fuck. You know, what do I do? Who do I choose? What are the differences? You know, and then you end up just picking something even though it’s not the best option just because to pick something. And that’s kind of been my experience of trans healthcare like this. I found out about, you know, Gender GP which is a much quicker and cheaper way of getting on to healthcare, but then someone said, ‘They’re a bit dodgy.’ Which is bollocks. And that’s part of the misinformation, but then that set me back because I was like, oh, well, I’m not gonna go with this dodgy thing, you know, I’m gonna go via the correct pathway, which of course, turned out to be the expensive pathway. I’m gonna to go to this clinic, they have a nice website and everything. There’s a lot of and then there’s a lot of misinformation about hormones once you get them. And, I mean, I suppose it’s finding out about—and also trying to find out about where you can get the hormones for self-medding is really a difficult—‘cos people are quite prejudice against that and so it’s difficult to meet someone whose actually gonna say to you, okay, this is a really useful site. This is how much the hormones are. It’s safe. It’s a pharmacy. This is what you can do. And like, I try to be that person to people that I meet who are starting on their transition as much as possible like, you know? These are your options. This one is good for this reason. This one is good for that reason, you know? And yeah, because that’s been my—
What was useful to you at that time?
What was useful? What was useful was when I would meet a person who knew what they were talking about. A trans person and a trans group, usually. And you would say, okay, you should do this because this is quick and it’s cheap and it’s easy and this and this. There was, there was a non-binary trans woman I met who I am still friends with who has been so helpful with that. She really knows her stuff. She kind of just told me yeah, just everything I needed to know.
Bailey found it useful to hear about other’s experiences to prepare for their own treatment so that ‘things that they've gone through, cause then I'm like, that might happen [to me]’. At the same time, some young people talked about the risk of getting misinformation when talking to other people. They felt it’s important to weigh up information and check it’s true.
Max said that they got information from co-workers and Facebook but that they ‘always take it with a grain of salt because some of them you know, well intentioned but probably don’t have the best information’. Cassie shared how she felt she ‘bought into the lie’ of soy and phytoestrogens. She said, ‘I used to drink loads of soy, ‘cos I had this like desperate desire to feminise’. She felt ‘it does fuck all’.
Bay talks about the ‘contradicting information’ from other trans people’s experiences.
Bay talks about the ‘contradicting information’ from other trans people’s experiences.
I feel like it’s something that is, on the one hand very easy to get lots of information online about different healthcare options and different procedures, different treatments, all that kind of thing. Well on the one hand there’s a lot out there and on the other hand it’s all a bit, it doesn’t seem, it’s never seemed very clear to me, it’s all a lot of, just going on what other people have said about their experiences, or what they’ve, you know. And a lot of contradicting information at times. Yeah I know that you get sort of the basic stuff on, on an NHS website or on a private clinic’s website, or something like that but I feel like a lot of it is forums and people, people sharing their experiences, and then you know trying to, trying to patch things together from different places, and that that doesn’t really, it never really felt to me like okay this is the place I’m going to go to find out what I need to know. Which I would imagine is probably quite similar for a lot of health related things but yeah, in terms of having a clear idea of, okay this is how the process is going to work if I decide to take this, if I decide to pursue medical transition and if, or aspects of medical transition, and if I decide to get a referral to a GIC, and all that kind of thing, what is this process going to look like? Yeah, it, I guess, in one, on one hand there is information there but on the other hand for me it felt like a lot of trying to, and still does feel like a lot of trying to you know scroll through Google and find different bits of information to put together to really get any clear idea of what the process might look like.
Online sources
Young people told us they had found very useful information online. This could include other young trans people talking about their lives on social media or blogs (such as Tumblr) or forums. Sophie said, ‘I’ve felt as though I’ve had to do a lot of my own research… looking at different websites.’ Jay said, ‘The internet has been a precious resource for me’. He said ‘there’s nowhere that I could have those conversations in real life.’
Many used YouTube to find out about trans healthcare and see others in a similar situation. Tom said, ‘I remember seeing this first video of this guy, and he was explaining he transitioned after going through puberty’. Tom felt he could relate to the guy and his explanation of his struggles and emotions. Rahul said some YouTubers share information that is old or about what happens in other countries. He preferred Facebook groups where you can ask targeted questions to people. The information is ‘much more instant and relevant to your needs’.
M says ‘Information related to trans healthcare is difficult [because] you have to be your own healthcare advisor’.
M says ‘Information related to trans healthcare is difficult [because] you have to be your own healthcare advisor’.
Information related to Trans healthcare is difficult you have to be your own healthcare advisor, your own GP, your own everything. So with my GP she’s lovely [laughter] however she had never had like a Trans patient so she was erring on the side of caution just quite worried about giving me the things I needed and so when I went to her to, I’d been going to her about my mental health for a little while and then I went to her to kind of explain like I think something that’s quite central in all of this is like my gender so can you refer me to Gender Identity Clinic. And she did, however I’m still waiting and that was two years ago, over two years ago that I was referred to the Gender Identity Clinic in [city] and yeah I’m still waiting to hear a peep from them. So in that kind of wait I decided that I needed to like take things into my own hands and so thank God there’s like a lot of information online, there’s people that run like Tumblrs and stuff that, I never really used Tumblr except for to find like Trans information but it’s been so helpful in terms of the healthcare information that they give you, I think like people run it as almost a, like anyone can write a question and then they’re quite trained, they’re either healthcare professionals that are Trans or like just Trans people that are really committed to helping other Trans people with healthcare. And so they write back your response and then you can read through everyone else’s questions everyone else’s responses and people do YouTubes and that kind of stuff and so that has been the main way that I’ve gotten information about Trans healthcare and how to go about obtaining the things that you need.
CJ shared that GIRES ‘are a fantastic [online] resource’. They also said Gendered Intelligence and Mermaids had useful online resources. They added ‘reading message boards and YouTube comments’ were also helpful.
Sally and Kat both found information on Twitter and Reddit saying ‘they have very good information’. Sally also mentioned Discord for learning information. Michelle reflected back on 2012 and 2013 where the only information she could find was ‘mostly through Facebook groups, forums and ‘asking questions on Reddit’.
Jack said that he ‘went to the GP…armed with knowledge that I’d read on trans support groups and a transmasculine Tumblr page that was really informative’. M, Declan, Ari and Max all said that transmasculine Tumblr pages are a helpful source of healthcare information. Ari stated ‘they have resources on everything from name changes, to the GP, to which clinic has the shortest waiting time’.
Freya talks about weighing up online information about trans healthcare with information from health professionals.

Freya talks about weighing up online information about trans healthcare with information from health professionals.
Every time I had a question, I just stuck a question on like a reddit like a transgender subreddit. Mostly the Transgender UK one, just ‘cos they’d know how like GPs and stuff work. I admittedly wasn’t super aware of the process of like how it’s not your GP. It’s like a separate clinic. Go to your GP to get there and like—I was kind of initially beating about the bush, looking up GPs seeing if can like email them directly. I was like swapping GPs from my home one to my uni one and so it was a bit of a faff. But I got most of the information either through the NHS website, reddit or just Googling like the GICs directly.
How would you class the quality of information online?
Well, I suppose, it depends on where you are getting it. Like, you know, probably going on reddit and sort of going off the word of A - a complete stranger who I know nothing if they’re telling the truth. But then also, potentially, it’s very like relevant, anecdotal stuff that they’ve gone through it, they’ve done it. It’s the tried and tested thing. You can sort of go online to like the GIC website now. It doesn’t even tell you how long you are waiting. It’s like at least a year and a half when you can go online on like again, reddit I like reddit a lot, thank god. Then like, right, well I’ve just got my letter today and signed up in like 2017 so it says a year and a half at least online, it’s like three years. So, you can get more honest stuff, I think, online, not on NHS stuff. But then also it can be complete garbage as well, especially on the stuff like—I think one of the problems is even like the leading endocrinologists don’t really know the best way to give like an adult male, female hormones, xy male so like trans woman the hormones to make them like physiologically, is that the word like female. And so on the sub reddits for like DIYing and stuff and you are trying to get your results like checked I can’t really roll up at my GP and just be like do these results look good, cause they’re sort of like, admittedly my GP is actually like god tier, I’m pretty sure he knows what I’m doing, well he knows what I’m doing, but he’s like completely on board as much as he like legally can be. Initially, not good. But I think he’s really trying to help. Like the average GP can’t just be like yeah, they’re great, female ranges. Also they don’t know, cause they don’t know if you’re meant to be in female ranges. So, you go online and you’re like, how do my results look? Some people are like they’re great. Some people like no they’re crap, you want these levels, you need to talk to swap to this. No, some people are like no you want to try this medicine instead. It’s all like coming from random people at the end of the day you don’t really know. You have to do a lot of like the sourcing and fact checking yourself. But, yeah, it’s, I suppose the thing is, it’s just it’s not very credible, a lot of it. So, you are taking people’s word for it, strangers.
Cassie talks about the risk of misinformation with online communities.
Cassie talks about the risk of misinformation with online communities.
Information sharing and everything else. The problem with it often is it’s unfiltered or unregulated and you know, one reputable source might be drowned in ten unreputable, histrionic or whatever else and there is a lot of misinformation out there. But, you know, I’m also part of like a trans DIY discord that has, you know, biochemists and pharmacologists and you know, other people and people having quite high level sort of academic discussion around how to best go about self-medding you know, and sharing links and resources and you know, okay, do this, you know, giving people access stuff, which I think is really important and you know, quite encouraging as an academic and as a scientist that people are that willing to go out of their way into and devote their time to these things and you know, and sometimes, you know, I’m very fortunate in that I have a IRL support community. But like, few people on the discord killed themselves over the last couple of months, you know, and it’s because it’s, you know, and that does affect you and also it’s just a realisation of like it’s tough out there, you know, it was tough for me and it is tough for me and like I’ve said, I’ve got it pretty good. You know, so I think those spaces are really important and like you know, that they’re curated and managed in a way that is responsible and sensitive and reactive to the needs of the community I think is really important.
NHS and healthcare professionals
The young people we spoke to also talked about the information they got from the NHS and healthcare professionals. Ezio found ‘different NHS files’ online but they ‘were shrouded in… words that I didn’t really understand… medical and admin terms’. Reuben said he ‘went on the NHS website and it wasn’t very useful’. He said ‘it was quite clinical in the way they sort of spoke about things and there was no clear path on what to do and how to get there’. Rahul found ‘a little pamphlet on hormone treatment’ which was ‘very general and vague’. But that it was ‘probably my main source because I considered that an official piece of unbiased information.’ Noelle said she ‘relied a lot more on forums than NHS official pages.’ She felt that NHS processes were complicated and unclear.
Jessica says ‘the internet’ and a private provider have been 'a big resource.’ She said ‘they’ve always been there to give advice and support’.
Jessica says ‘the internet’ and a private provider have been 'a big resource.’ She said ‘they’ve always been there to give advice and support’.
Google and the internet and stuff is obviously a huge resource. But, from actual governmental sources there’s always been this kind of unclear language used. There has never been a definitive set of like, these are the terms that you use. This is what they mean and so there’s no uniform advice almost. It’s like you could just hear different things from different people and it all depends on what GP you have. Whether they’re even gonna give you any help like my GP wasn’t particularly supportive when we went to speak with him. I had to kind of circumvent that. I couldn’t get a shared agreement with [Private Provider] and my GP for instance. So, there’s a lot of like I had to circumvent all that and luckily thanks to the internet there was places where I could get information about healthcare and stuff and resources and learn about like here’s what HRT is and here is what it’s gonna do to you. That was all great. But on the governmental side, I guess there wasn’t much help at all, really.
What resources were most useful to you? Or most helpful?
I’d say definitely like, but like social media of having friends who are knowledgeable about this stuff. [Private healthcare provider] has been a big resource also. Throughout this process of going through getting hormones with them, they’ve always been there to give advice and support and be very definitive about things and like this is what you need to look out for. These are like this is the changes you are gonna have in your body. Do you consent to all this. They’ve been very clear in language and stuff about that and that’s how to do it. I fully understood the ramifications what I was doing when I was obtaining hormones and be like yeah, awesome.
Theo shares an encounter with a misinformed healthcare professional.

Theo shares an encounter with a misinformed healthcare professional.
When I first came out, I would, I was in a hospital. I was in hospital and I would tell people I was trans and they’d just be like, what’s your nickname dead name? I was like it’s not a nickname. It’s my name. And then they would misgender me and they’d just dead named me and it wasn’t very—there was this nurse, I think who’d from the Home Treatment Team who came round to my house after I came out of hospital and I’d ask about how do I get treatment for gender dysphoria. And she kept changing her mind. So, she’d say, ‘You have to go and see a GP.’ And I said, ‘Okay.’ And then like five minutes later, she’d say, ‘No, you have to see a psychiatrist.’ And then, another five minutes later, she said, ‘What’s stopping you from going to see your GP about gender dysphoria?’ I said, ‘Well the fact that you have just said I should see a psychiatrist.’ It was very weird and then she said something like, ‘What’s your favourite thing? What would be the best thing about being a boy?’ You’re not really, this person is completely misinformed.
Erion shares his excitement for starting masculinising hormone therapy ‘it’s going to be amazing’.

Erion shares his excitement for starting masculinising hormone therapy ‘it’s going to be amazing’.
What kind of feelings do you have around hormones and the changes and stuff like that?
I mean, overwhelmingly positive [laugh]. I think having a lot of people and myself included, the minute you kind of claim that identity and then you realise what options you have got available, and then you read up on those options, it's like less of like a dream and more of a very likely reality and you just kind of get in your own head quite a bit about like, ooh, like the minute I start on, you know, hormones, I'm going to have like my voice is gonna sound like, it's going to amazing. You know, that pretty much sums up my thoughts just like sheer excitement because you know, for me, there are no downsides to hormones like I’m an alright bald, like male pattern baldness runs in my family, I’m not fussed about it. Been bald before, not an issue. Great, I'll be a baldy, it's wonderful. But then like, yeah, like there’s so many people that just get hung up on the parts of hormones and say, kind of they wish they could pick and choose. I get that like it's a very all or nothing that there are situations. But then I get even within that everybody's built differently, you know, people react to things in a different way. You know, people I know who have been on hormones for years now, some of them have never grown beards, never. It's just not happened. Their follicles don't like it. Then others like three months and they are just like beard. But it's like, you know, there is like not much around the maybe. I think for me, I’m like, I don’t care. Whatever they give me I will take because that's what makes me comfortable. That's what I am happy with and yeah, yeah. A lot of happy thoughts. Happy hormones thoughts [laugh].
Books, reports and journals
Some people we spoke to had looked at books, reports, academic and medical journals. Noelle said that she ‘only trusted official medical documents’. She continued ‘I trusted that more than I trusted testimonials from other trans people’. The reason she gave was ‘because there’s a lot of conflicting information so I just went with what’s scientifically proven on paper’. She said ‘I found out the correct dosages for hormones, I found out the known side effects, what hormone ranges I should be aiming for’ in medical journals. She said that information in journals is ‘quite matter of fact’.
Kat gave example of reports by the ‘American Association of Paediatricians (AAP)’ and the ‘Endocrine Society’ and World Health Organisation. She said these had ‘lots of information.’ She also shared that she used these reports for challenging misinformation and ‘opinions that are wrong and have been disproved’. The young people we spoke to also picked out gaps in the information for some groups such as non-binary people and trans people of colour.
Kat talks about her opinions on misinformation about young people and gender dysphoria.

Kat talks about her opinions on misinformation about young people and gender dysphoria.
I think it’s interesting because like at the, at the beginning I was pretty wary, I didn’t really kind of know what was true and what wasn’t because like as I’m sure you know there’s a ton of bogus stuff, bogus science around so I now have kind of a data, a databank almost of studies that that I used to kind of spot my, spot my viewpoints when I’ve ended up arguing with people which happens quite a lot. That’s but like there’s been just kind of so much kind of bad science going round, so like last year there was the rapid onset gender dysphoria study which I’m sure, you know about it right? You know and everyone knows just kind of how bad it was like.
Jay talks about his useful sources of information for trans healthcare in medical journals.
Jay talks about his useful sources of information for trans healthcare in medical journals.
A lot of it was just me reading through whatever medical journals I could find, online. The most useful stuff that I found was other people’s first hand experiences. More so than anything on the NHS website or anything that I heard from a doctor was just, you know, reading what other people had to say and what it’s like to be on hormones, physically and mentally, that sort of thing. That was helpful for me because, you know, no doctor has really known a lot about it that I’ve ever seen. Yeah, I think that the biggest and best resource out there is just other people at the moment.
I think it kind of just gives you a window in rather than reading something that is a medical journal and its very sort of scientific and impersonal. If you can actually read what other people have to say, it really helps you understand and know what to expect, really. Yeah, I think a lot of the actual medical stuff is just very vague and impersonal. It’s quite often hard to use as a resource.
A talks about having to ‘put together bits of information’ for non-binary people and understanding not everything was going to apply’.

A talks about having to ‘put together bits of information’ for non-binary people and understanding not everything was going to apply’.
It’s quite difficult because there’s like no, I think especially for a non-binary person, it’s a lot of sort of putting together bits of information that are scattered around everywhere, like there are some really good resources for non-binary people but they don’t like cover everything I guess yeah.
What kind of resources do you mean?
So I mean there’s like plenty of resources that just give you definitions of lots of things but like, like again, like, knowing the definition of something isn’t like the same as knowing if that applies to you I guess. And then also like, you know, like a lot of trans resources as well are I think catered more towards binary trans people and then, as a non-binary person, it’s I kind of felt like I was reading through all these resources for binary trans people and then I had to like sort of say to myself as I read along, ‘Like this applies to me, this doesn’t, this doesn’t..’ This like,’ or when I was talking about medically transitioning, ‘like this is something I want, these are things I don’t want.’ And I guess it sort of felt that like I’ve got this feeling like for binary trans people there might be this one quite well laid out pathway forward for them, whereas, for me as a non-binary person, it was yeah I felt a lot more like I was on my own and had to work it out for myself which I admit I think that’s partly like because I mean being trans is like a very individual experience and especially for non-binary people even more so but, you know, it’s still quite difficult I think.
I don’t think there’s a lot of kind of healthcare information for non-binary people specifically so it was mostly just finding like resources for trans femme people in general and then like while reading and understanding like not everything was going to apply and then there was a lot of going onto communities and hearing other people talk about their experiences and like their feelings about their own transition process, that kind of thing.
Max says that the ‘basic information’ they found ‘was very white’ and he ‘couldn’t relate to that at all’.

Max says that the ‘basic information’ they found ‘was very white’ and he ‘couldn’t relate to that at all’.
If I’m honest with you, most of it was very white so I didn’t really, I just took the basic basic information, but I didn’t hear about people’s experience and couldn’t relate to that at all.
What couldn’t you relate to?
Just kind of, I don't know, the life story, I suppose ‘cos mine is quite, well not specific, but actually I don’t know how to explain it. I just couldn’t relate to it. Obviously, you can relate to people who you see yourself in. I couldn’t live their life and they couldn’t live mine so yeah.
Where were you seeing those kind of stories?
Mostly just online like I don't know, Facebook or different Facebook groups, Tumblr probably and like social medias and stuff which weren’t always the best place to get information from. But yeah. Or just different websites. I don’t remember what website, there was a website called, but there was one website that had bare information about, I don't know, different clinics and the waiting times, different surgeons, just like definitions of certain identities and what not. I forget what it was called though.
I mean, yeah. It took, it took a lot for me to find, you know, YouTube video and about another trans guy was also black or just non-white. Obviously, I knew that yeah he could still transition without, even if you’re not white. But it was just nice to hear of people who are also black, basically.
See also:
Journeys to identifying as trans and gender diverse
Race, culture, religion and healthcare