As with so much political activity for trans liberation in the 2010s, the GMC investigation was only made possible by social media. The details of widespread abuse of British trans people by those who were supposed to be helping them wasn’t a story broken by a newspaper or uncovered by an inquiry. It began with a hashtag. #TransDocFail was created by a trans woman in 2013 as a space for British trans Twitter users to discuss failures in healthcare publicly and with each other. Within twenty-four hours of its creation the hashtag was used over a thousand times.
