How the health care system falls short for transgender patients

[stephaniec]

How the health care system falls short for transgender patients

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transgender-patients-health-care-system-falls-short/

CBS News/ MARY BROPHY MARCUS CBS NEWS June 22, 2016, 10:05 AM

"It's not easy to find compassionate medical care when you're a transgender person, says Victoria Albina, who has a busy medical practice in Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., where she works with many transgender and LGBTQ patients.

Albina is a board certified family nurse practitioner who holds a degree in public health and has trained in integrative and functional medicine. She told CBS News that her work is rewarding, but she's saddened that in a world where a health care provider's office should be a sacred space, most fall short for people who don't fit traditional gender roles."

[Jean24]

Not only that but the techniques are incredibly lacking. The wide ranging results always leave people infertile with an "okay, that's it" message implied.

[Lady Sarah]

Having been denied care at some coins, and outed by another, I'd blame the staff where I had problems. At the clinic I go to these days, it's just a matter of correcting the records each time a bigot changes my gender marker to male. Most of the staff are pretty accommodating.

I'd say we are still in the dark ages, when it comes to trans issues.

[Michelle_P]

Having been denied care at some coins, and outed by another, I'd blame the staff where I had problems. At the clinic I go to these days, it's just a matter of correcting the records each time a bigot changes my gender marker to male. Most of the staff are pretty accommodating.

At my Kaiser office, the electronic records they currently maintain show my gender:

Name: Michael[1] ...
...
Gender: Male[2]

Yup, I have footnotes.  I didn't get a peek but I'm pretty sure there's a 'when presenting as' or something to that effect.  Some clinicians even read the footnotes and name me properly.

[Lady Sarah]

At my Kaiser office, the electronic records they currently maintain show my gender:
Yup, I have footnotes.  I didn't get a peek but I'm pretty sure there's a 'when presenting as' or something to that effect.  Some clinicians even read the footnotes and name me properly.

Around here, nobody knows whom I was. Other than family, and whom my ex-doctor told, nobody knows I'm trans. I currently travel 55 miles to see my current doctor, after it took 4 months to find another one after being outed, and then threatened. It might not sound like a big deal to have one person at the clinic change my gender at will, but it's on the prescriptions I take back to the pharmacy in this tiny town. Not even my insurance cards say "male". They say "female", and I did what it took to get it all done and make it legal. The least they can do is show some respect. If not, I will continue with efforts to make someone jobless. I reported my ex-doctor to the state medical board already. I don't think it's right for anyone to be treated poorly, just for being trans.