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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Libby Brooks

Trans woman’s death ‘preventable with right support’, mother says

Alice Litman
Alice Litman had been waiting to receive gender-affirming healthcare for three years when she died. Photograph: Family Handout/PA

The family of a young trans woman who is believed to have taken her own life have said she was “failed by those tasked with her care”, as the coroner investigating her death described services for transgender people as “underfunded and insufficiently resourced”.

Alice Litman had been waiting to receive gender-affirming healthcare for more than three years when she died in Brighton at the age of 20 in May 2022.

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