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Trans students feel 'screwed over' by Student Health Service

Exclusive: Transgender students are facing long and uncertain waiting times, huge financial costs, and refusals from GPs to provide hormone treatment.
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Transgender students and young people often have limited finances and resources, so are particularly vulnerable to getting lost in the system and face more obstacles than most in accessing the care that they need.

Sports clubs are the least diverse student groups at Bristol

Figures collected by Bristol SU show that white students are twice as likely as BME students to become members of sports clubs.
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If there is a lower BME participation in sports, maybe this divide is a result of higher level issues in society. Bristol has a disproportionate amount of students from private schools, which in turn tend to be more white, and these are the institutions that promote sport to a higher level.

Amar Shah, fourth year Engineering student

No strike fund protection for students taking part in rent strike

Going against advice from NUS, a student rent strike will go ahead without a rent strike fund in place.
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Clearly, Bristol University has a problem with unaffordable student accommodation and students are suffering as a result. Failure to set up a strike fund, however, leaves students at financial risk in terms of credit ratings and weakens their bargaining power.