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I was talking to a friend about this. He wasn't speaking about Peru in particular, but politics in general. He said,

"There is only one reason to declare someone mentally ill. To control them."

That made me think.

Quote from: Jessica_K on Yesterday at 02:57:26 PMHere in the UK, GP's are useless for anything transgender orientated. "We are not trained to administer hormones or to evaluate bloods" so will not do either. The fact they administer hormones to cis women and know exactly what good hormone blood levels are in cis women says it all.

I have a female GP that I choose thinking from her CV would good, but she is just like all the rest.

I hope in your country or state GP's are better than here.

Jessica xxx

My GP in the UK was amazing.. not totally accepting, we had a LONG conversation about his views on transgender people and their rights and he stated he would 'Never administer drugs of any kind to a child to ease gender dysphoria'. However for me, he was supportive and wrote of my prescriptions without a murmur, liaised with the private hospital and surgeon who did my surgery and was supportive on my post-op recovery.

I am sorry Jessica if you have a bad one.. but you know what, you can change your GP really easy.. I did not just happen to have this guy as a GP.. I had that transgender conversation BEFORE I joined his surgery.. The NHS has a lot of problems. It has some very bad wait times for gender surgery and gender confirmative care on the whole, but it does exist and it is accessesable to ALL.. in the USA you need insurance, that costs money and in most cases it is a lot of money. If you are working a dead end job, no insurance the chances of you even getting hormones are zero.. The chances of you being able to afford your consultations are zero.

I chose to pay for my surgery, I wanted it faster than the NHS could muster it up.. a friend of mine, however went the NHS route, did the GHC and the years of wait.. she had her surgery 3 months before me in the same hospital, with the same surgeon, with the same level of service.. it cost, on the door, nothing to them and close to £20,000 for me. The only difference was 3 or 4 years. WHilst that is too long, it being available to everyone is still something to be proud of and demands to make the NHS better are all called for - But classing it all as 'useless' or worse the people that work hard in this service as 'useless' is harsh

I have built in prejudices like everyone else.. . I, however, understand that like in people in general, doctors are not about what they look or sound like. So I take each one at face value, hope for the best and continue to use them if they show they are good at what they do. To this end, a young Spanish female doctor saved my life 15 years ago, a middle aged Iranian surgeon removed a huge brain tumour from my head without killing me, a young Asian guy proved to be the most amazing endocrinologist I have ever met and an Ethiopian refugee, was my overnight nurse in hospital recovering from surgery who just went above and beyond to ease my pain..

Stereotypes are best avoided when dealing with your health..

If you go to the source here:
https://busquedas.elperuano.pe/dispositivo/NL/2287398-1

you will see (if you translate it) that this is about national insurance for health care, and not allowing insurance to exclude any conditions.. It uses the ICD-10 diagnoses, that are used worldwide to classify disorders and states that anything in these classifications is legally covered.

For example one of the codes covered, F64.0 ( https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/F01-F99/F60-F69/F64-/F64.0 ) transsexualism, is now covered under state law. It is a shame that the ICD.10 still indicates that these are mental disorders. A mental disorder is not a mental illness BTW, but it is biased reporting to state that this was something the Peruvian government has stated or some 'backwards step' as posted by the pink news.. This is a case of checking your facts before getting offended.. many people are too easily offended.. I think most people in Peru will welcome this move forward in what is a country with a lot of other issues.

As a side note, intersex is in the ICD-10 - The ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for indeterminate sex is Q56.4. The World Health Organization (WHO) lists this code under the range of congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities. Again, bad reporting by Pink News stating that this was being listed as a mental disorder.. when it is clearly not, just a disorder also included in the new legislation.

The cataracts in my eyes were so bad that I did not see the parking brake light in the dash of my car. I drove it several times without releasing the parking brake until a half mile down the road. I burned up the rear brakes. I had planned to go to the St Cloud, MN VA., but my eyes were bad enough that I would not be able to read the street signs. Now my car needs to be repaired first. I used to do my own maintenance, and did not realize I needed an appointment to get my car repaired. My appointment is at the end of the month.
My eyes have already been repaired, and now they need to heal. With the cataracts gone, I can now see the computer monitor without glasses. I even had to turn down the brightness. I will need glasses for driving, but I found an old pair that now gives me 20/20 vision.
It got a bit depressing as I could not drive anywhere, and had to rely on the senior center for a driver to take me to the eye doctor.
It is a mile walk to the grocery store from home with the post office midway between. I try to do this walk daily, even when I don't get groceries.
I will need to take some papers with me to St Cloud, as the name on my dd214 does not match the name on my driver's license.
Michelle

I agree, Allie.

I think it has to do with honesty. Being honest with ourselves helps us be a better person, which improves the world... one person at a time.

It is quite confusing. Some of it is our own fault.

L=Lesbian
G=Gay
B=Bisexual
   are sexual orientations.

T=Transgender
Q=Queer
+=Everyone else who is non-binary
   are gender identities.

By lumping everyone together, we create confusion in those who don't understand what the terms mean.
They assume that every one that is not "straight" is automatically in the LGBTQ+ category. Of course, we accept everyone because, as a group, we are more inclusive than those who are hetero and/or binary.

Then we have all the possible combinations of gender identities coupled with sexual orientation, including heterosexual. How can we expect anyone to understand when we get confused ourselves?

How are intersex people included in this? I don't understand.