LITTLE BACKPOCKET GUIDE TO

Bridging prescriptions

This guide is for anyone who wants to know more about one of the lesser known routes to accessing hormones for free, via the NHS. You may be thinking about, or already taking hormones yourself, or want to equip yourself with information to support your friends and community.

A bridging prescription does what it says on the tin - in theory, it is intended to ‘bridge’ a gap in care whilst you’re waiting to access a specialist service, from the point of referral. A bridging prescription isn’t specific to gender-related healthcare, any specialist service could use one. If you are referred to a specialist service (in this case the GIC), your GP could use a bridging prescription to prescribe some or all of the medications you will be taking under that service - in this case, hormones.

✺ The Love Tank CIC acknowledges the expert health that informed this booklet.

Thank you to the queer people – especially those with bridging prescriptions experience – who helped create this booklet, and who pushed for it to be produced.

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Helpful resources

Trans specific services

✺ 56T at Dean Street
Soho – appointment only
2nd Floor, 56 Dean Street, W1D 6AE
Every Wednesday, 4:30 - 7pm
✺ CliniQ at Kings College Hospital
Camberwell – walk in
Caldecot Centre, 15-22 Caldecot Rd, London SE5 9RS
Every Tuesday, 4 - 7pm
✺ Bridge @Southwark
Southwark – via registration
ih.bridgeatsouthwark@nhs.net
1st Tuesday of the month
Facebook groups

✺ Non-Binary London
✺ FTM, MTF Trans & Non-binary Support Group
✺ TransPALS UK (Trans People Across London South)
✺ Action for Trans Health Advocacy Support
Instagram accounts

✺ Radam Ridwan @radamridwan
✺ Travis Alabanza @travisalabanza
✺ Danni Spooner @dannisp00ner
✺ Prinx Chiyo @prinxchiyo
✺ Shayshay Show @shayshayshow
✺ Lori Mae @motherlorimae
✺ Lucia Blayke @luciablayke
✺ Black Trans Foundation @blacktransfoundation
✺ The Bitten Peach @bittenpeachuk
✺ We Exist London @weexistlondon
✺ June Lam @assignedfagatbirth
✺ JamieBoyKing @boy.king.tattoo
✺ Biogal @biogal
✺ Pissed Off Trannies @pissedofftrannies
✺ Mud Howard @transsexualdreamboat
✺ Not A Phase @notaphaseorg
✺ QueerGarden @queergarden
✺ Pxssy Palace @pxssypalace
✺ Transmissions @wearetransmissions
✺ Prinx Silver @prinxsilver
Events and socials

✺ Transmissions (weekly film screening/social)
✺ Fussy Party (club night)
✺ Pxssy Palace (club night)
✺ Harpies (club night)
✺ London Trans Pride (annual protest)
✺ Bender Defenders (regular self defence/fitness class)
✺ Femme Fraiche (club night)
✺ Body2Body (club night)
✺ T-Boys Club (club night)
✺ TransFemSocial (monthly social)
✺ Testo Hunkie (club night)
✺ Shapeshifterz (weekly dance class)
✺ G(end)er Swap (community events)
Community Spaces

✺ London LGBTQ+ community centre (central)
✺ The Common Press (east)
✺ The Outside Project (south)
Haircare

✺ Open Barbers
✺ Hugo Snips
Counselling

✺ ELOP
✺ Spectra
✺ CliniQ
✺ 56T/Trans+
PrEP info

✺ Information about HIV PrEP – a pill that is free to use and can prevent HIV infection.
STI self-testing kits

✺ If you live in London, you can order a free at-home STI testing kit here.
✺ If you live in certain other regions of the UK, you can order a free at-home STI testing kit through SH:24. See here for a list of eligible regions.

Credits

PRODUCED BY
The Love Tank CIC in collaboration and solidarity with Dani Dinger

FUNDED BY
community donations

TEXT BY
Dani Dinger

ILLUSTRATIONS BY
Flatboy @flatb0y

DESIGN BY
Richard Kahwagi

Original content created by Dani Dinger for The Love Hub at Fringe! Film Festival 2021 and adapted for The Love Hub 2022 – www.danidinger.com

✺ Published March 2023.