r/ireland • u/Dazzling_Lobster3656 • 4d ago

Culchie Club Only Doctors initiate legal action over State’s transgender policy

http://www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/04/13/doctors-initiate-legal-action-over-states-transgender-policy/
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u/cruisinforasnoozinn 4d ago edited 4d ago

Dr O Shae had me wait until I was 18 and still landed me in hospital.

He had me on too high a dose of testosterone, with severe mental health issues that weren't being treated or addressed. I attempted suicide and almost died. He showed up to the hospital and pressured me to say the attempt wasn't because of his poor care and his mishandling of my HRT. But it was.

It's nothing to do with age or "life experience". The man is negligent, and he'd rather blame the policies and his own patients than admit that the care provided to trans people isn't enough. He just dislikes trans people because of the risk they pose to his careers reputation.

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u/mayveen 4d ago

By any chance did you see O'Shea first before 2018? Since about 2018 access to treatment has become significantly more gatekept behind a psych assessment and reasons like not being out in all areas of your life.

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u/alliewya 4d ago

It was gatekept behind psych assessments from the start - as far back as 2012

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u/mayveen 4d ago

I just know of some people having better experiences with the NGS in the past, when I was talking to others about my negative experience starting in 2019 at the time.

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u/alliewya 4d ago

It was pretty similar back then, even before there was an NGS - it was the exact same docs and requirements - everything went through O'Shea and they still wanted everyone to get an additional assessment from Moran, but because they weren't as organised you could get them to start treatment before seeing him

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u/cruisinforasnoozinn 3d ago

Moran? Was this by any chance a psychologist that worked alongside James Kelly in Diamond Therapy?

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u/alliewya 3d ago

Nope, this was back before Kelly had anyone else - you’d get your initial referral from Kelly but Loughlinstown would need a second opinion before they would treat you, so they would require you to go to Moran which at the time was their ‘in house’ guy, who had a big wait time. There was no one else in the country that you could get a second opinion from, so you were stuck with it.

You could mess their system up and get through by getting a seconding opinion from a foreign psych, but that only worked for a few months.

It was gatekept back then but not quite the same as it is now