I am an activist involved in getting us the rights that we need,and I have 2 questions.

1.  Discuss your identity documents.  Do they all match in your acquired gender?  Are your Dr. license, SS card and passport or Birth certificate the same gender?  Are they the same if you are pre-op, non-op, or post -op??

2.  Have you ever suffered discrimination from  healthcare institutions?  Did insurance cover your hormones?  Has your insurance covered any other trans events, surgeries, or medications?

Thanks so much

Hi Virginia,

My DL and Medical are both female as is my work records.  SSA and state of Oregon will not change without surgery.  And I am Pre-op.

My medical is Kaiser Permenete in Oregon.  They cover HRT only.  No therapy or surgery.  How ever they did say that if Oregon adopts AMA resolution 122, they will look into covering SRS, Orchiectomy, FFS and Top Surgery of the boys.

I'm in the UK.

All my documents are in the same name at last. I was given a female name at birth and "masculinised" it due to bullying in my teenage years. Result, had documents with one name and half with the other. Government in 2007 forced me to unify my name and I've reverted to my original name in all of them.

Yes I did suffer severe discrimination in the Accident and Emergency of a London Hospital in 1993.

No health insurance, we have universal health care, the National Heath Service, in the People's Republic of Great Britain!

Just so you all will know, I am non-op, and my dr. license, SS# and passport are all female, but my birth cert. is male.

My health insurance has covered my hormones, but nothing else.

In NM, it is getting harder to get a SS and dr. license in the new gender, without a surgeons letter of SRS.

Virginia

I'm post transition and all my paperwork is in order.

They only discrimination I face was the usual: My insurance paid for absolutely NOTHING when I was a pre-op.  I essentially paid all $80,000 of my transitional expenses out of pocket.  And I'm not bitter at all.  I choose to look at it as a positive: I own my transition, I don't "owe" anyone anything.  I'm officially female now and that's something nobody can ever take away from me!

After SRS I briefly went to using my insurance to get my injectable estrogen, but get this: I switched back to paying out of pocket because the compounding pharmacy I was using as a pre-op was CHEAPER than my co-pay.


As far as Social Security goes I hope everyone knows that the official government policy for transsexual women is you must have SRS to change the gender field.  Changing it without SRS is essentially fraud.  Why am I being confrontational?  I just worry that the Feds could catch some people and decide to punish all future transitioners by making the rules even more strict.  Sound far fetched?  Not really.  There are a couple hundred post-op women born in Illinois that have been unable to change their birth certificates because someone was caught abusing the system there.  So I ask all of you who have not had SRS to have patience and do not try to beat the system.  It could all come back to bite us all in the butt.  Follow the rules for the sake of all the people transitioning after you. 

they won't change anything here in Ohio without a court order, and if you were born male at birth, thats what you die as, no exceptions even with srs as far as birth certificates go. drivers license i haven't tried to change yet cuz i haven't been to court, but most of my medical records now state female and hopefully my new name at least thats who they wrote the prescription out for, last time i went. my work records won't change a damn thing without a court order and want to do everything completely backwards and disrectful. so far my gp has been nice but afraid to go to the gyno since thats who she referred me to, same doctor's office as my spouse so i want to go but don't wanna go cause she doesn't want me to see her docs, but i use to go to another doctor's office and if the doc i was scheduled to see was busy i saw someone else, i really didn't appreciate that especially since i wasn't told by a nurse or anything. 

and as far as i know they won't change the gender marker on your license either, even if you've had surgery...