So I have another gender appointment on Tuesday and I cannot stress enough how much it feels like the IRL Permit Office
The building itself? Completely derelict. It has a receptionist and like two other people one of which is my councillor.
The waiting room has books from 30+ years ago. There’s a feedback box on the ground and I made the joke it dispenses the complaints into lava like at the Permit Office.
I was surprised I didn’t see a Hang in there poster based on the other motivational posters that were on the walls.
Jokes aside, there’s no funding for gender clinics in Northern Ireland. We have one for the whole country and the waiting list was so long they had to close it. I’m only now being seen as of last year and I was on the list since 2017. It’s dire and the state of the building certainly proves that fact.
Grian definitely did a good job of capturing what it feels like to be put on hold for years and to step into a liminal space government building lmao next thing I expect is the cursed version of Please Hold to be playing over the speakers while I wait 🫠👌
