Celebrating Anne Health’s one-year anniversary

Anne Health is proud to celebrate one year of providing supportive, compassionate, gender-affirming care to trans+ people of all ages in the UK.

When we launched Anne in 2024, we were a small team with a shared mission: to make affirming care accessible, safe, and community-led.

In just 12 months, thanks to our supporters, we’re now helping nearly 600 people access life-saving gender-affirming care who would otherwise be waiting years for their first appointment.

Our team has grown, too, to support this demand. We now have a team of 23 that spans our clinical, wellbeing and admin teams. Each committed to providing better and more compassionate gender-affirming care to our patients.

We’re also proud of the fact that we’ve raised over £7,000 from our crowdfunder as well as monthly donations from our generous supporters. That money, which we match, goes directly into funding people’s gender-affirming care.

It’s a milestone worth celebrating, but it comes at a time of alarming setbacks for trans rights in the UK, says Co-founder Susie Green:

“Lizzie and I have created a service that we are proud of, that holds at its heart the promise that if it isn't good enough for those we love, it isn't good enough for you. But it comes at a time when the rights of trans and non-binary people are being stripped away.

We shouldn’t have to exist; trans people deserve access to healthcare that treats them with respect for no charge without gatekeeping, just like everyone else. Given the current actions of the government and the NHS, this is unlikely for some time. Our commitment is not only to utilise our organisation's resources to provide as much subsidised care as possible, but also to use our platform to speak out openly against injustice. We refuse to be silenced and will continue to do everything we can to provide the care and support that is needed.”

We want to thank our members, our team, our supporters who have come with us on this journey and everyone who believes in a future where gender-affirming care is a right, not a privilege.

Here’s to the future. To resisting, caring, and providing better access to trans+ healthcare together.