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Title: Transgender DO provides safe haven for patients
Post by: Natasha on May 25, 2008, 07:19:56 AM
Transgender DO provides safe haven for patients

By Brooke Johnson
http://www.tugsa.net/pub_do0508transgen.pdf

"When Christine N. McGinn, DO, decided in the summer of 2000 to publicly discuss her experiences as a male-to-female transsexual, she knew the revelation could take a damaging toll on her career as an osteopathic physician.  Dr McGinn remembers. "But at that point, I knew it was something I had to do," she says of the decision to begin her transition from male to female."