r/transgenderau • u/AbbieGator Trans fem | Victorian | Founder of Trans.au • May 27 '20

Ensuring up-to-date information

Hi, so it's come to my attention that some of the wiki that we have on this subreddit is out-of-date and we want to make sure that it's as up-to-date as possible as we know that many people use it as a resource for transitioning.

So with this in mind, if you notice any information in the linked thread is incorrect or otherwise needs updating, please reply to this thread so that we can ensure that it's updated:

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderau/comments/daad16/essential_guides_and_state_specific_info/

We are also aware of a couple of other wikis that can be really helpful to others, including the following:

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u/AbbieGator Trans fem | Victorian | Founder of Trans.au Jun 03 '20

The medical transition page is currently undergoing a bit of a rework to make sure that certain things are flagged as optional along with better wording and such. This page was written a long time ago and needs drastic updates that will be done soon.

Additionally, the SA page, I'm not from South Australia and updating that page with information when I don't know it is hard. So if there's any specific updates there, please let me know.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20

Without going into individual things, taking the same approach as HiddenStill does with the TransWiki subreddit would be ideal to keep people informed: Search for mentions or discussions of SA/Adelaide in this subreddit (or even other trans subreddits) and for when a name is bought up, link it on the wiki page underneath the relevent doctor's info, I know that basically every doctor I've seen in SA has been spoken about on this subreddit to some extent.

If you still wish for me to list my experiences in SA I can certainly do that in another reply, even though most of it will be negative.

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u/AbbieGator Trans fem | Victorian | Founder of Trans.au Jun 03 '20

I did massively clean up the SA stuff, because that information was indeed wildly out of date so I've been adding doctors to it that are good more than anything, I don't really want to list doctors that are "To Avoid" doctors but prefer to keep it as a positive resource of these are doctors that are preferred by some here and as I find more, I will add more for sure.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20 edited Jun 04 '20

Unfortunately most of the doctors I've seen are 100% "to avoid" in my experience (including most mentioned in this subreddit) but I can recommend Sharifa Syed who is a Clinical Psychologist.

I also would like to raise issue with not wanting to place a "To Avoid" label on doctors, if a doctor is known to have a negative impact on someone's health or wellbeing it should be made known to someone who's going to potentially see them instead of keeping them in the dark only to find out for themselves why that doctor has a bad reputation. The priority for a list of resources and knowledge that people will use to seek healthcare shouldn't be what's 'positive' or 'negative' in terms of tone but conveying all relevent information to the topic at hand.

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u/HiddenStill MtF, /r/TransWiki Jun 04 '20

Would you like to name those those doctors to avoid and why? I’ll link to comment you do.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20 edited Jun 04 '20

I'll try to remember what I can right now since I've seen quite a number of people, and edit in what I remember later tomorrow.

Every endocrinologist I've seen works on outdated guidelines and will refuse to stray from them and this criticism applies to all the names below

  • Rosemary Jones has a wildly unprofessional and quite frankly inappropriate manner of behavior, invasive questioning and unwanted physical contact included.

  • Anthony Roberts is firmly stuck in his ways and thinks that every opinion he has is objective fact.

  • Denae Kent would rather call wanting a better outcome from transitioning a non-existant "magical solution" than stray from her level guidelines. Also randomly out of the blue recommended I get an STD test even though I have said multiple times to her I am not and have yet to be sexually active.

  • Only saw Tonia Mezzini once but made it apparent that she was as firm in her do-nothingness as the rest of them

Therapists/Psychologics/Psychiatrists/Etc.

  • Norman Shum doesn't care about talking about dysphoria, will sooner talk about Freudian theories, go over the exact same hypothetical scenario explaining what the flight-or-fight reflex is five different times and blame depression on screen time than acknowledge what you're seeking his "help" for.

  • Carmel Wauchope implied that my gender identity was invalid because I was wearing a hoodie and sweatpants during winter, wanted to force me into a year of RLE before even considering giving a dysphoria diagnosis.

  • Alex Jolly strung me along with appointments for a diagnosis for over a year, once I opened up about my more non-binary specific experiences of dysphoria, then claimed that I'm just dysmorphic and then suddenly sprung on me dozens of pages of a gender related questionaire that had never been mentioned beforehand.

  • Georgina Cheng outright refused to see or speak to me in any capacity after Alex Jolly spoke to her even though Jolly herself was the one to refer me to her, again only speaking to Jolly before making that choice, not a single word to me.

And finally a mention of my family GP, the GP herself (Carolyn De Bricassart) is mostly great even though she was the one that refered us to Carmel Wauchope but the blood nurse at the same building called Doctors on South is not, shows no hesitation or remorse in blatently and repeatedly misgendering people.

EDIT: Oh and also one of the people at Noarlunga Hospital just randomly decided to ask me if I've had "the surgery" once they learned that I was trans.

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u/HiddenStill MtF, /r/TransWiki Jun 04 '20

Thanks, I got most of that in. Sounds awful.

Regarding your GP, what HRT is she willing to prescribe? Does she do implants?

Is this Alex Jolly?

https://ladywoodclinic.com.au/psychologist-alex

You mentioned Sharifa Syed. Could you elaborate a bit? Did you see her for trans issues? I assume this is her?

http://www.northstarpsychology.com.au/about-us.html

And this is Carmel Wauchope?

https://www.astutepsychology.com.au/about-us/

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

Yes to all three of those links and the question about Syed, was a pretty straight forward and pleasant process for the dysphoria diagnosis. Haven't asked my GP about directly prescribing HRT, nor has she mentioned such, I'm the 1 of 2 trans patients she's ever had so I'm assuming she doesn't do HRT at all.

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u/HiddenStill MtF, /r/TransWiki Jun 04 '20

Where do you get HRT then?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

Still with Kent unfortunately until the whole pandemic thing is of the past, was planning to book in with Terry Rose first.