Mr. Dylan Donohue:

I will reiterate some of Moninne's points. A trans-specific clinic must be established in Ireland for transpeople across the country. CAMHS does not have the space for transpeople to go through its system and it does not have the specialists. Psychologists in mental health services need to be aware of how to handle having a transperson using their services. For instance, when I went to CAMHS I was called by the wrong name and pronouns the whole time and staff continued to do so when they referred me on to the gender identity clinic. Waiting lists for CAMHS and other mental health services are really wrong, and having waited, many people are then told that CAMHS cannot do anything for them, that they do not know how to handle a transperson. Many transpersons are under the impression that going to CAMHS and similar places will give a gender dysphoria diagnosis which will allow them to go on and get treatment and so on. That is not how it works but they are not told that they need to go further than CAMHS to get a gender dysphoria diagnosis. Transpeople are thrown around the system until someone decides finally to deal with us.