T Letters and Top Surgery in NE Florida
i see a lot of posts and hear from a lot of trans friends about how hard it was to get letters for T or surgery and i'm so angry for them and grateful that i was somehow lucky enough to find TWO providers who didn't make me jump through flaming hoops to get the medical care i needed desperately.
i don't know if either one is still accepting new patients/doing transgender care anymore, but:
if you need a T letter in Jacksonville, FL, try Matt Borer. when i saw him, he didn't accept insurance, but worked on a sliding scale and was very affordable for me, a poor college student at the time. Matt required two visits before writing a letter, and seemed like he would be accommodating of non-binary patients as well (I thought I was FTM at the time)
if you're looking for top surgery, Bruce Mast in Gainesville, FL, with UF Health, did mine, which you can see here, at 6 years post-op. When I went to him 6 years ago, he did not require a letter, but that may have changed since then. I do not know if he is still doing trans top surgery. In addition to not requiring a letter at the time, his clinic allowed me to set up a payment plan as long as my insurance covered part of the surgery. I ended up paying $50 a month for maybe 2 years?
I do have a couple of friends who were turned away because Dr. Mast said they were too overweight to operate on. I also do not know what his stance on non-binary patients is because at the time I thought I was straight-up FTM, so I never asked about non-binary patients. So while I did have a decent experience with him, your mileage may vary drastically.
