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Title: Transgender Patients Find Safe Haven at Bronx Family Practice
Post by: Shana A on July 31, 2012, 07:42:11 AM
Post by: Shana A on July 31, 2012, 07:42:11 AM
Transgender Patients Find Safe Haven at Bronx Family Practice
July 30, 2012 1:31pm | By Patrick Wall, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120730/longwood/transgender-patients-find-safe-haven-at-bronx-family-practice (http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120730/longwood/transgender-patients-find-safe-haven-at-bronx-family-practice)
LONGWOOD — With close-cropped hair, a few arm tattoos and an easy smile, Q resembles many other young men his age — which suits him well, except when he has to visit a gynecologist.
Q, who is 26 and lives in Co-op City, was born female but has been transitioning into a man over the past several years.
In March, when Q arrived at a doctor's office for a scheduled pelvic exam, the staff were so visibly rattled by his male identity that Q fled the clinic.
"They should be a little more compassionate," Q said recently. "You see an old lady walk in with something wrong with her, you're not going to look at her any different. So why would you look at us different?"