Canada’s health-care system ‘don’t do transexuals’

[LostInTime]

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Regardless of what the Human Rights Commission determines about the case, the findings of the Ontario Public Health Association's Trans Health Project show that a huge chunk of the health-care system in Canada has adopted attitude that it just doesn't "do transsexuals".
    The findings point to huge gaps in trans-specific health-care that have resulted from major cuts in funding since the '90s. Marked among those are the removal of funding for electrolysis in 1992, the subsequent removal of sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) in 1998 and most recently, the conditioned funding for hormone therapy - all services that trans people deem invaluable to live comfortably in their own bodies.
    Susan Gapka, one of the principal investigators for the project, said trans people have been erased from the health-care system.

[Steph]

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Regardless of what the Human Rights Commission determines about the case, the findings of the Ontario Public Health Association's Trans Health Project show that a huge chunk of the health-care system in Canada has adopted attitude that it just doesn't "do transsexuals".
    The findings point to huge gaps in trans-specific health-care that have resulted from major cuts in funding since the '90s. Marked among those are the removal of funding for electrolysis in 1992, the subsequent removal of sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) in 1998 and most recently, the conditioned funding for hormone therapy - all services that trans people deem invaluable to live comfortably in their own bodies.
    Susan Gapka, one of the principal investigators for the project, said trans people have been erased from the health-care system.

It goes without saying that Ontario's healthcare system (OHIP) is in turmoil.  Financial shortages, doctor shortages, and a lack of hospital beds is clearly putting an huge strain on the system.  It is understandable that the government looks at cutting health care from those who the general population has little sympathy for.  Lets face it the general public do not see SRS, HRT, Electro as essential when funding is needed to provide more MRI machines, hospital beds and doctors.  Doesn't make it right, just a fact of life I guess.

Steph