EXCLUSIVETrans-influencer and BBC Dr Who voiceover actor who moved out of London threatens to take down her GP 'after being refused hormone treatment' in profanity-laden social media posts

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A trans-influencer and BBC voiceover actor has vowed to take her GP down after being refused hormone treatment. 

In a series of now-deleted and profanity-laden videos on Instagram, Charlie Craggs told how the experience left her speechless, angry, and feeling helpless. 

Ms Craggs, who voiced Cleo Proctor in BBC audio drama Doctor Who: Redacted, recently moved from London to an undisclosed area in the countryside where she she bought a cottage with her mother.

The trans activist, who described herself as 'the Grinch of the trans community', told her 64,000 followers her new GP wouldn't prescribe her the female sex hormone oestrogen.

Trans women, who are biologically male, take the hormone to help their body better match their gender identity. It promotes breast growth and redistributes body fat, giving a trans woman more feminine curves. The drug can also inhibit the growth of both muscles and facial hair, though how effectively it combats the latter can vary per patient. 

Charlie Craggs when she attended "The Crown" Finale Celebration in London  in December

In plea to her GP to prescribe the medication Ms Craggs wrote 'please don't make my life harder than it already is'

In the Instagram video Ms Craggs said that the unnamed GP practice would suffer consequences for delaying the decision not the prescribe her hormones stating ''You might be able to refuse me service ladies, but you're not allowed to be incompetent so if I can't get healthcare than no one in my vicinity can because I am taking you all down'

Ms Craggs, who is in her early 30s, accused her doctor — who she did not name — of denying the prescription because they said they didn't know 'how to treat trans people'. 

'I've been told by the head GP of the practice... like basically "we're not going to be prescribing you your hormones" that I've been on for 10 years,' she said in the video on Instagram, which only lasted 24 hours before being automatically deleted.

'I've jumped through every single hoop I've had to get onto them and now the person at the f***ing bottom of the chain, the GP, all they have to do is press a button and prescribe them is saying "hmm we're not going to do this".

'The Gender Identity Clinic, which is part of the NHS, have literally sent you letters saying "please prescribe Ms Craggs this much oestrogen", that is all you have to do.

'Read the letter and prescribe me 6mg of oestrogen, you do not have to perform a sex change on me.'

Ms Craggs, who first rose to public fame in a BBC Three documentary called Transitioning Teens, said the GP did this despite her informing them who she was. 

'I am the Grinch of the trans community,' she said. 

'They know this as well because I said on the phone "I'm Charlie Craggs I have a Wikipedia page".'

 Ms Craggs said the GP practice only informed her of their decision as she ran out of her previous supply of hormones. 

'My appointment with them was the 31st of January three weeks ago and said during the appointment "we're not really sure, we'll be in touch in two days",' she said. 

'It was like three weeks until I heard from them, I literally had to chase every week and I never heard back.' 

And the year before when she attended the Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2022 in London

Pictured left to right Doctor Who: Redacted writer Juno Dawson, previous Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker, and actress Charlie Craggs

Ms Craggs added: 'You might be able to refuse me service ladies, but you're not allowed to be incompetent.

'So if I can't get healthcare than no one in my vicinity can because I am taking you all down.'

Ms Craggs also posted some of the correspondence between her gender consultant team and the GP practice urging them to prescribe oestrogen. 

It details how the hormone treatment has helped prevent hair loss and promote regrowth and how the team isn't concerned about the drug's principal 'adverse effect' of erectile dysfunction as it is 'not viewed as problematic'. 

Ms Craggs added her own plea to this correspondence to her GP, writing 'please don't make my life harder than it already is.' 

She posted the letters with the text 'What am I paying taxes for? Having to BEG for my medication that I'm legally entitled to.'

In response to her battle Ms Craggs has vowed to start campaigning on this issue. 

'I'm going to start campaigning about because if I, the f***ing Grinch of the trans community can feel like this and be treated like this I dread to think what the f***ing baby trans, who are less sure of themselves, are going through,' she said. 

Ms Craggs previously launched a fundraiser to give trans people free self-defence lessons after she was spat on in a transphobic attack in London in a video which went viral. 

UK regulations mean a GP is within their rights to refuse to issue a prescription for a patient — even if it comes from a team of specialists, like in Ms Craggs' case.

Under British law, it is the prescriber of a drug who becomes legally responsible for providing it and, by extension, any potential adverse reactions.

In practice, this kind of situation generally occurs in niche areas of medicine where specialist medics issue requests for GPs to supply powerful drugs that they may be unfamiliar with. 

Ms Craggs first rose to public fame in a BBC Three documentary called Transitioning Teens

Normally when this happens, a patient is referred back to their specialist team who usually have an alternative means of providing the drugs. 

Advice issued by the doctors' union, the British Medical Association, and cited by family medics, makes it clear such refusals can vary between GPs. 

It reads: 'Each GP will make prescribing decisions based on what they are or are not prepared to take clinical responsibility for. 

'Some doctors might have special training or knowledge of a particular area of medicine which makes them comfortable to prescribe and monitor a drug where many GPs would not. 

'Clearly, a GP should be aware of their limitations as well as their skills and must ensure that they are not prescribing beyond their knowledge or their ability to ensure patient safety. 

'GPs are not obliged to provide every possible medical service to their patients, only those for which they have been contracted for, and these contracting arrangements may vary between practices.'

Ms Craggs was contacted for comment by MailOnline.

She didn't name the GP practice involved in her care in her posts on social media.