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 The GenderGP PodcastGenderGP Q&A: How To Use The ServiceHello, this is Dr. Helen. Webberley welcome to our GenderGP podcast, where we will be discussing some of the issues affecting the trans and nonbinary community in the world today. Together with my co-host Marianne Oaks, a trans woman, herself, and our head of therapy.

Marianne Oakes:Good afternoon everybody, and welcome to the GenderGP podcast. Today, we're going to try and answer some questions that we frequently get asked by our patient groups and by new people coming to the service, and to help me do that, I've got the wonderful Katie. Instead of me trying to introduce her because she is a multi-talented person, I'm going to ask Katie to introduce herself. So welcome Katie, and would you like to just tell the listener a little bit about yourself?

Katie Tiplady-Startin:Thank you, Marianne. I'm not entirely sure I'm going to live up to that introduction, but I'll do my best. So I'm Katie. I started working with Helen Webberley way back in the day. I was the first person that she brought into GenderGP. Some of you will have seen my name on messages and information on the website over the years. But now my role is Chief Operating Officer at GenderGP, and that actually encompasses all of the patient services. So the wellbeing teams, the medical teams, the, the pathway teams that most people would have had some interaction with if you're, if you're with the service. And my day-to-day role is basically to keep everything ticking along, making sure that it's still working well, and if we need to change anything that, you know, we do that quickly and well, so hopefully I can answer some of these frequently asked questions, but I think the key to say is that GenderGP is moving with what's needed. So some of the answers that you might hear from this episode might be different if you'd have looked at the website two, three years ago.

Marianne Oakes:I just wanted to add as well, Katie, uh so the listener understands, when me and Helen get things wrong, Katie's the one that, the one that slaps our legs and keeps us all in check. In fact, if anybody gets anything wrong on the team, there is a lot to remember working at GenderGP and, and there's only one person who we can rely on to make sure we're all going in the same direction and that's Katie. So,

Katie Tiplady-Startin:Oh, do I need to send you something Marianne? Send you a present for all of that lovely, all of those lovely things.

Marianne Oakes:The first question that, I think everybody asks this, I think anybody coming to the website probably got this undermined as well, who can actually access the services of GenderGP? Well, what would your view be on that?