How the health care system falls short for transgender patients

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transgender-patients-health-care-system-falls-short/

CBS News/ MARY BROPHY MARCUS CBS NEWS June 22, 2016, 10:05 AM

"It's not easy to find compassionate medical care when you're a transgender person, says Victoria Albina, who has a busy medical practice in Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., where she works with many transgender and LGBTQ patients.

Albina is a board certified family nurse practitioner who holds a degree in public health and has trained in integrative and functional medicine. She told CBS News that her work is rewarding, but she's saddened that in a world where a health care provider's office should be a sacred space, most fall short for people who don't fit traditional gender roles."

Not only that but the techniques are incredibly lacking. The wide ranging results always leave people infertile with an "okay, that's it" message implied.

Having been denied care at some coins, and outed by another, I'd blame the staff where I had problems. At the clinic I go to these days, it's just a matter of correcting the records each time a bigot changes my gender marker to male. Most of the staff are pretty accommodating.

I'd say we are still in the dark ages, when it comes to trans issues.

Quote from: Lady Sarah on August 01, 2016, 09:22:27 PM
Having been denied care at some coins, and outed by another, I'd blame the staff where I had problems. At the clinic I go to these days, it's just a matter of correcting the records each time a bigot changes my gender marker to male. Most of the staff are pretty accommodating.

At my Kaiser office, the electronic records they currently maintain show my gender:

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Name: Michael[1] ...
...
Gender: Male[2]

Yup, I have footnotes.  I didn't get a peek but I'm pretty sure there's a 'when presenting as' or something to that effect.  Some clinicians even read the footnotes and name me properly.

Quote from: Michelle_P on August 01, 2016, 10:42:57 PM
At my Kaiser office, the electronic records they currently maintain show my gender:
Yup, I have footnotes.  I didn't get a peek but I'm pretty sure there's a 'when presenting as' or something to that effect.  Some clinicians even read the footnotes and name me properly.

Around here, nobody knows whom I was. Other than family, and whom my ex-doctor told, nobody knows I'm trans. I currently travel 55 miles to see my current doctor, after it took 4 months to find another one after being outed, and then threatened. It might not sound like a big deal to have one person at the clinic change my gender at will, but it's on the prescriptions I take back to the pharmacy in this tiny town. Not even my insurance cards say "male". They say "female", and I did what it took to get it all done and make it legal. The least they can do is show some respect. If not, I will continue with efforts to make someone jobless. I reported my ex-doctor to the state medical board already. I don't think it's right for anyone to be treated poorly, just for being trans.