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TRANSforming healthcare: UIC holds transgender healthcare event
Posted by TJ Chernick on March 31, 2012 in News
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In honor of LGBTQ Health Awareness Week, the University of Illinois at Chicago group UIC Pride hosted Transgender Health 101 March 28, a lecture and discussion on the role healthcare providers play when treating transgender patients.
"Take off your shoes and switch them around, now put them on ... walk around a bit ... how does that feel?" asked former Howard Brown Health Center physician and UIC faculty member Dr. Regina Kim. "It's not right, this is how a lot of people describe how it feels when they're transgender."