During Dr Helen Webberley’s hearing we’re bringing you Transitions, a new mini-series from the GenderGP podcast. GenderGP team member, Cleo Madeleine, will be joined by members of the community to talk about the journeys they have been on, the transitions they have been through and the moments that changed everything.

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Transitions: Ezra

 

Cleo:

Hi there. My name's Cleo Madeline from Gender GP, and I'm stepping in for Dr. Helen Webberley for a special new mini series of the Gender GP podcast. Over the next few weeks, we'll hear firsthand accounts from members of the community, the journeys they've been on, the transitions they've been through and the moments that changed everything. Hi everybody. And welcome back to the Gender GP podcast. I'm Cleo Madeline and my pronouns are she/her. And with me in the studio today is Ezra. Ezra. Could you just talk to us a bit about who you are and what it is that you do?

Ezra:

Okay, cool. Hi, I'm Ezra. I'm a non-binary person and I've kind of like identified that way for, at this point, most of my life. So it is like a big part of who. I am, I work at Gender GP as well. I'm a pathway advisor and I work in the new patients division. So I work a lot with kind of like new people coming into the service and helping people like get started on their journey and stuff, which is really rewarding and really cool. Yeah. I've recently qualified as a barber, so I'm kind of currently working on that as well. I've just started working in that a bit more like professionally as well, and yeah, that's also really rewarding and fulfilling.

Cleo:

Amazing. Fantastic. I've got so many questions just off the back of that. This is an interview with delight, I guess, first of all, working at Gender GP with new patients, there must be reward, but also quite challenging. You know, we, I think run a really important, good, amazing service, but also you in a perfect world, nobody would go for private healthcare. Right? So that you must also find that there are people who come to the service who have had a bad time. Right?

Ezra:

Absolutely. I mean, it's difficult because it's something I've said since I started said working at the company. And since I started my specific role is I realized very quickly that if the NHS was functioning properly and doing what they were supposed to be doing, that I wouldn't really have a job. And honestly I'd be okay with it because if people were accessing the care that they need in the way that they should be able to, yeah, there'd be no need for Gender GP. And I really, I think everyone at Gender GP can like, would agree when they say like, we'd be okay with that. That's in an ideal world. That's what would happen. Um, but we're not quite in an ideal world. And as such, you know, there is a need for the service that we provide. And a lot of patients that kind of a lot of, uh, forms and stuff that I processed. And a lot of stories that I see are not particularly happy ones.