Transgender Care Moves Into the Mainstream

[stephaniec]

Transgender Care Moves Into the Mainstream

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2463347

JAMA/By Laura Buchholz JAMA. Published online October 14, 2015.

"Teri Berry, a transgender woman living in Kentucky, transitioned from male to female 9½ years ago with help from hormones she procured on the Internet and gender reassignment surgery in Thailand. Where she still can't seem to find help, though, is from physicians in Kentucky."

[Rejennyrated]

Crazy! Then again when I qualify as a GP maybe I should sit the USMLE and set up practice in the USA - to judge from this I'd have it made!

[suzifrommd]

Wonderful to see the AMA highlighting this issue. Now if only there were a way they could get doctors actually to change.