TRANS HEALTH CARE REFORM It's About Life and Death

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TRANS HEALTH CARE REFORM It's About Life and Death

http://www.conducivemag.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91:trans-health-care-reform-its-about-life-and-death829&catid=35:the-science-of-social-change&Itemid=64
8/30/09

Robert Eads was visiting friends in the late 1990s when he woke up in a pool of blood. His terrified hosts quickly began calling hospitals, clinics, and private physicians, explaining that Robert was a partially-transitioned female-to-male transsexual and demanding an immediate appointment.

The request was repeatedly rebuffed. By the time Eads found physicians willing to diagnose and treat him at an Augusta, Georgia teaching hospital -- a three-hour drive from his home in rural Taccoa, Georgia -- his ovarian cancer was so advanced that nothing could be done to save his life. He died in 1999, at age 53.