We cannot condemn enough this disgusting move from the already well known senseless British government supported by every of their voters.
This is the fatphobia in the health system that many people refuse to acknowledge. This is the fatphobia that gets fat people killed. THIS IS IT.
-G
“We’ll treat you if you lose the weight” they say, knowing that studies show that 10% weight loss is all that can really be managed at most by the most capable. Its code for “We won’t treat you. Your life has less value.”
Already a victim of this for a while, now its gone mainstream outside of trans stuff. For me to reach their BMI goals I need to lose 20% of my body mass. The only effective method I found of this was a starvation diet of 400cal/day.
I posted about it on facebook and in came the droves to defend it saying “well, why should we pay for treating people who don’t look after themselves”
It’s fucking BMI you numbnuts, it has so little to do with individual health and more about cost cutting in a way that they can get away with because of the disgusting fatphobia we face in society.
I should also point out the dramatic cuts to weight management clinics in the NHS specifically designed to help people with weight issues. Its hardly encouraging when on one hand you refuse to treat the overweight and on the other refuse to help them lose it.
And once again, the governments violent cuts to nhs funding have turned our healthcare service into some grim discriminatory rationing body.
There are no long-term studies showing that it’s realistic to dramatically reduce your weight without gaining it back. There’s a reason weight loss studies never follow subjects for longer than a few years, as weight regain begins to pick up speed in years 2-5. And major weight reduction followed by regain has been consistently shown to leave people in poorer health than they were when they were fat. Dramatic reductions in body weight also come with high risks for suicide and new or intensified mental illnesses.
But there’s no such thing as fat hatred being institutional, right?
If I don’t manage to get a BMI below 30 I can’t get top surgery. Trans folk have been angry about this for a while
Gender teams (trans healthcare “providers”) in the Netherlands are also restricting access to surgery if they think your BMI isn’t “low enough”
The inventors of the BMI were NOT DOCTORS OF ANY KIND and have been saying again and again that the BMI should NOT BE USED TO MEASURE INDIVIDUAL HEALTLH.
Doctors: “lalala can’t hear you I’ve finally found a way to justify my fatphobia!”
NHS to save on costs by ‘refusing surgery’ on obese people and smokers
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