A transgender woman who took her own life as she waited for help for mental health issues felt “marginalised and fobbed off”, her family have said.
Alexandra Greenway, 23, was detained by police a month before her death after a previous suicide attempt, and psychiatrists said they believed she would benefit from talking therapy. But by the time she was found collapsed at her flat in Bristol, she had heard nothing from the services that would have provided cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
Greenway felt that almost all of those involved in her care did not fully understand her needs as a transgender woman, said her mother, who added that the services that might have helped her daughter were too stretched to get to her in time.
Jacqueline Greenway said the professionals who spoke to her daughter seemed to focus on her stress at work rather than her experience as a transgender woman. “Alexandra had complex needs that were not fully explored. She felt constantly marginalised…
— to www.theguardian.com
