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Mr(s). Smith can’t find a doctor

Started by LostInTime, November 15, 2006, 09:12:25 AM

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When Michelle B. booked an appointment with Toronto's renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Robert Stubbs, she wasn't expecting to be shown the door so quickly.
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Unfortunately, findings of the Ontario Public Health Association's Trans Health Project show that a huge chunk of the health care system in Canada has adopted the attitude: it just doesn't do transsexuals.

It points to huge gaps in trans specific health care that have resulted due to major cuts in funding since the 1990s. Marked among those are the removal of funding for electrolysis in 1992, the following removal of sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) in 1998, and most recently the conditioned funding for hormone therapy — all services trans people deem invaluable to live comfortably in their own bodies.
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