So, I'm Amanda. I've been out as being trans, and open about it, for about the past 3 or 4 years now. I was able to go full time when I was in high school for my senior year, then noticed a development in my perception of my gender to the point that I was finding that I switched between three different mental "gender states": male, female, and neither (perceived and felt as agender). Primarily, I'm finding myself in a female "gender state", so my plan is to transition from being male to being female. I feel that if I'm physically female, I can better present either of my three gender states. After several sessions discussing this with my therapist, she feels it's the best call, as well.
I had an appointment with an endocrinologist last October, and she said she didn't feel confident in her ability to start a trans patient on hormone therapy, and recommended I contact a couple of other hospitals about it.
My therapist and I are going to set up a complete, in-depth plan for me to transition (which I will be sharing with everybody later on). For now, I have to find out if any of my insurances cover HRT, because if I'm paying for it out of pocket, I need to know so I can plan for it.
I've never been too great at introduction posts on forums, so if y'all have any questions, feel free to ask. I'm mostly an open book.
Hi Amanda! Well, the introduction was interesting, looking forward to subsequent chapters ;)
Welcome to Susan's, sister. Sounds like you dealing with the journey well, working with your therapist. I hope you connect with the right endo soon :)
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Good luck with finding your true self, and welcome to the site. Hopefully it is a helpful place to you^^
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Hi Amanda and welcome to our little nook of the universe.
You don't provide too much information and unfortunately the situation is different in every country and state/province or region.
I'm sure some of our members can provide insights and advices but they will need to know a bit more (don't be too specific though, this is an open forum), assuming you are in the States the State you live in or the major metropolitan area should be safe and give them more to work with.
Great to hear that your therapist is so supportive but I think you have just discovered that this makes a lot of doctors very nervous and they will do just about anything to not treat us, it's really sad but one can only hope things will get better.
I live in the Central Pennsylvania area, Mifflin County specifically.
The endocrinologist I had gone to see (Dr. Kaviani (sp?)) in State College treats like 3 or 4 other trans patients, so I believed her when she said she didn't know enough to be able to start, just to maintain it.
Also, I'm going to college at Penn State University (who has an awesome LGBT support group at Main Campus in State College) for Information Sciences and Technology. Not sure that that matters too much, but it might help.
Welcome to Susan's, Amanda. Your intro was great.
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And Oregon and Washington quite a few natural path specialize in trans people good luck keep us posted good luck with computer science that is what I was going to major in before I had other health issues probably from stress of living how other people wanted me to live
Hello, Amanda. Pleased to meet you *tips hat* I'm newer here as well and so far this seems like quite a fine place. I think you'll like it here.
Here in Canada trans care has now been taken over my family doctors and general practitioners because it's become so common that it would overwhelm the specialists, they all pretty much follow the Sherbourne guidelines, perhaps if you provide your Endo with the following document she might feel more comfortable?
http://sherbourne.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Guidelines-and-Protocols-for-Comprehensive-Primary-Care-for-Trans-Clients.pdf
Quote from: Amalynn on July 20, 2014, 02:42:02 PM
I live in the Central Pennsylvania area, Mifflin County specifically.
The endocrinologist I had gone to see (Dr. Kaviani (sp?)) in State College treats like 3 or 4 other trans patients, so I believed her when she said she didn't know enough to be able to start, just to maintain it.
Also, I'm going to college at Penn State University (who has an awesome LGBT support group at Main Campus in State College) for Information Sciences and Technology. Not sure that that matters too much, but it might help.
I will see what I can do to look in to that.