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....the reality.... and this is why transitioning is important to many transgendered people. Not every trans person wants to transition, but for some, it’s the only way to make the pain (begin to) go away .... #cutthelabel_ #equality #equalhealthcare #transisbeautiful https://www.instagram.com/p/B7KI2uEpp8U/?igshid=vk2p6izbq9m7

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Transgender Healthcare Panel

           The panel of Transgender Healthcare at University of Illinois at Chicago discussed issues in current healthcare for gender variant people. It addressed the essentials of gender variant people according to their individual needs. The panel consisted of a physician that provides great help to the trans gender community in Chicago with a clinical, a woman who shared her struggles as a trans with medical care she needs, and with other presenter who help gender variant in the state of New York and Pennsylvania in health care. One of the most common problems trans people have to deal with getting medication covered or care by the insurance companies is due to the gender that is on their identification cards. In addition to so many confusing plans to find the right coverage with lengthy documentations that keeps many tans people from receiving the best medical care. Also, the lack of education to understand the treatment of gender variant people not taught in medical schools or learned by the doctors themselves. However, the physician on the panel does help other doctors in the UIC hospital to be better informed when assisting gender variant people.  

           Next, one of the most shocking facts discussed on the panel was the rate of suicidal attempts by trans gender people, which is about 40% or 6% of the total population in the U. S. Also the high of rates of HIV contraction and abuse compared to the total population. This shows the extreme hardship gender variant have to encounter than a person who defines their gender according to more socially accepted norms. So to cause change in these high rates of grief, there needs to a change in the community language and for others to not assume what a person may or may not need from the health care system while transitioning because “health care should a right and not a privilege.”