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Title: Transgender Care Moves Into the Mainstream
Post by: stephaniec on October 15, 2015, 01:46:32 PM

Transgender Care Moves Into the Mainstream

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2463347

JAMA/By Laura Buchholz JAMA. Published online October 14, 2015.

"Teri Berry, a transgender woman living in Kentucky, transitioned from male to female 9½ years ago with help from hormones she procured on the Internet and gender reassignment surgery in Thailand. Where she still can't seem to find help, though, is from physicians in Kentucky."

Title: Re: Transgender Care Moves Into the Mainstream
Post by: Rejennyrated on October 15, 2015, 02:02:31 PM

Crazy! Then again when I qualify as a GP maybe I should sit the USMLE and set up practice in the USA - to judge from this I'd have it made! :D

Title: Re: Transgender Care Moves Into the Mainstream
Post by: suzifrommd on October 15, 2015, 04:11:48 PM

Wonderful to see the AMA highlighting this issue. Now if only there were a way they could get doctors actually to change.

Susan's Place Transgender Resources

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