draxar

Am now on Twitter as "draxar".

Who else here is?

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I appea to have discovered some BT man's canoodling spot. I've found him there with his lady friend twice now...

I like it. Not yet perfect with the keyboard, but not too damn bad. Glad I've gone for it.

In other news I can heartily anti-reccomend the Euston road Pizza Express. Never been that much of a fan of the chain (if I'm getting a pizza on it's own as a meal, it should be fairly big) but this one was hellish. Essentially one big room, and nothing to stop the sound. Today I discovered that my sensory oversensitivity can generate overload from sound as well as light, and I still have a splitting headache

oxfordgirl

A dear friend of mine is currently being refused medical treatment on the NHS for a debilitating condition which seriously threatens her health, in one of the most vicious, idiotic and arbitrary Catch-22 policies I have ever had the horror to encounter in my frequent skirmishes with British bureacracy.

She has created a petition to attempt to get the government to recognise the inhumane treatment to which she is being subjected, and to compel the Primary Care Trust in question to bring its policies in line with the rest of this (apparently 'civilised') country.

Please consider signing the petition here: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/gdoxpct/; I would consider it a great personal favour.

Please also propagate this link. A minimum of 200 signatures are necessary for the petition to be considered.

ETA: A clarification of the Catch-22 in question, from sebastienne

"To further explain the Catch-22:

Gender reassignment, in the UK, is mediated through specialist clinics. For the south of England, the specialist clinc is at Charing Cross Hospital in London. In order for Charing Cross to put you forward for surgery, you have to demonstrate that you are functioning day-to-day, living in your target gender.

In order to get funding out of Oxfordshire PCT, you have to demonstrate "extreme need" - and pretty much the only way to do this is to be so depressed as to be at risk of suicide. A state of mental health which then makes you ineligible for treatment by Charing Cross.

Oxfordshire PCT will only fund your gender reassignment when your condition, through non-treatment, has made you too ill to undergo surgery."

And a link to the full report referenced in the petition explanation, which gives some history as well as details of exactly what Oxfordshire PCT are doing wrong, and how they're doing it: PDF Article by Outen et al.