‘I used to pay £200 for trans healthcare – now I pay nearly £2,000’

Hundreds of trans and non-binary people have been refused gender-affirming healthcare from their NHS GPs over the last few months, according to a campaign group.

TransActual says at least 382 trans people have had their Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) prescriptions refused by GPs from January 2024, when they began collecting the data, to May 2025.

Of them, 102 had a letter from an NHS gender clinic asking a GP to prescribe the treatment, while 293 had already been taking hormones.

Doctors have also refused to renew pre-existing HRT plans, with 126 trans people reporting this to TransActual.

It comes after one of Europe’s top equality officials said the government’s treatment of trans people could breach their human rights.

HRT for trans people involves taking hormones to spur physic