Recent Entries

• Self Medication prior to GIC (UK): Vehicle and Problems

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor July 28, 2016
  Self administration of oestrogens   As promised, in my recent initial lblog recommending only to commence medication under Medical Supervision/ Monitoring. In the event of a decision to by-pass the unacceptably long wait for an initial appointment in the Gender Identity Clinic (2-3 years as ...

• Self-administration of Sex Hormones in Great Britain

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor July 25, 2016
  I have frequently been asked at our Group Sessions what is the best way to take self administers Hormones. the simple answer is "don't"!! Seek professional advice, from day one, through your General Medical Practitioner". The next remark I hear is that the Oestrogens have been supplied, via the inte...
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• 'Sparkle' Transgender Medical Conference, July 2016

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor July 12, 2016
  I was pleased to Chair this section of this year's 'best ever' Sparkle, held in conjunction with the numerous wurkshops available in the LGBT Centre on Richmond Street.   I will endeavour to expand this document to embrace the most useful and salient points for Transgender individuals on our ...
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• Facial Feminisation Surgery

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor July 5, 2016
  This weekend , I am proud to represent the UK Trans Community as Chair of the Medical Conference at the National Transgender Event, 'Sparkle".   As a Professor of Ophthalmic-Facial , Reconstructive and Orbital Surgery, I am often asked at our Trans Group meetings (Manchester, Llandudno, Scarb...
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• Harrogate Transgender Weekend

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor March 6, 2016
  Thursday afternoon esconced in Betty's for tea; and then Rigby and Peller's expensive Lingerie shop. Nobody in Harrogate seems to notice trans women: rather nice and old-fashioned - like the town. Awoke to thick snow at the Hotel on Friday: so, there was no chance of walking to the shops! The Hotel ...
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• Hormones and Pharmacists

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor February 27, 2016
  Transgender females recently lnform me that UK pharmacists are, on the whole, 'Homophobic': embarrasing individuals by returning from the bowels of their dispensary with prepared and dispensed prescriptions for Estradiol Tartrate and Blocker (Finesteride, etc); and making loud statements and questio...
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• Gender and name change: UK passport applications

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor February 18, 2016
  UK PASSPORTS: CHANGE OF NAME AND GENDER: Firstly, obtain your application form from your local Post Office; and, finally, do take it back when completed for them to check and send. This incurs an extra cost of about six or seven pounds; but, guarantees it is acceptable, ensuring there are no un...
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• Surgeons for Welsh patients undergoing Gender Re-assignment Sur

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor February 16, 2016
  The vitriolic comments and monumental (almost idolatrous) praise hurtling around facebook this week concerning three GRS Surgeons, has prompted this, my second blog of a sleepless night resulting from a mal-funtioning alarm at Barclays Bank.   The WHSSC (see below) has, this week, confirmed t...

• Gender Re-assignment Surgeons in England and Wales

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor February 16, 2016
  Phil Thomas, Bellringer or Oliver Fenton? The debate rages on Facebook this week: all because a patient is being referred to Fenton for 'corrective surgery' by a follow-up clinic at Lancaster: but then he is nearby, and it is not far to travel!    Sides are uncompromising, as to both the...
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• The Marco Polo of Neuro-physiology

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor February 12, 2016
  Marco Polo is alleged never to have gone to China, and to have culled his wealth of information from those returning via Venice. How that relatesn to the subject of this comment, I have no idea; but it is stated by Neuro-physiologists. the object of their criticism is held in the highest esteem by ...
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