#transhealthfail

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Micah is creating Transgender Health Resources

Want to support your friendly neighborhood cutie? Help me create more resources!

I'm passionate about creating understandable, accurate, engaging, useful resources – for parents, partners, friends, friends of friends, grandparents, medical providers, allies, queers, and above all, ourselves – to explain the complexities of trans health and gender transition. 

My mission is to contribute positively to everyone’s experience with gender.

For just $1 a month - $12 a year - you get exclusive access to my irreverent newsletter, where I self-deprecatingly narrate how much progress I've failed to make that month. And guess what? September’s post is already up!

Where do the funds go?

Other than uncompensated time, effort, and expertise, the donations go into specific projects. For example:

I just submitted my first official academic paper to a peer-reviewed journal. However, because the journal is open access (meaning the articles are free for everyone to read) the fee for authors is $1,000. Help me & my collaborators write more articles about trans health and nonbinary identities that will be used to inform research, funding, and policy of trans health all over the world.

What else can you do to help?

If you are unable to donate financially, for whatever reason, at least give this post a like and a share. Knowing you are there supporting these efforts is more than enough for me! <3

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Looking for health insurance for 2017 through HealthCare.gov? We’ve got you covered! Out2Enroll reviewed more …

Looking for #trans inclusive #healthcare? Here's some info on some plans and relevant policies re #transgender folks

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Patients & Providers

Transgender Health: Patients & Providers series connects providers to patients’ need for competent and compassionate medical understanding of trans health.

Nearly one fourth of transgender patients delay health care because of fear of discrimination [2015 US Trans Survey]. With a community hesitant to interact with the medical system, we want more providers to demonstrate not only competence, but excellence in transgender health.

We want to highlight the work providers are doing in hospitals, clinics, and communities around the world, and ask them to teach their provider peers to do the same.

We’re asking patients to participate in creating their own health care experience –  to ask questions, and to tell providers what matters to them most as a patient who also happens to be trans.

You are welcome to suggest special topics, ask a burning question, or introduce us to health professionals who would make engaging guest authors. If you’re a provider or a patient and wish to contribute, let us know!

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What does your ideal visit to a health provider look like?

My blog’s new summer series Trans Health: Patients & Providers will feature an assortment of international medical professionals whose varying perspectives will push the limits of transgender standards of care.

In the first post of the series, Dr. Kim Acquaviva asks: What does excellence in health care look like to you?

Reply, comment, or tweet @kimacquaviva.

[inmedicalres]

Happy Pride! I gave a talk to my local medical society about how not to be an asshole to trans patients. This was deeply troubling to one of the docs, who apparently *always* lambasts the speakers. I was worried my response to him may have sounded flustered or emotional, but I finally got the guts to listen to the recording and it turns out I sound composed and confident. He proceeded to show his entire intellectually-dishonest ass to the crowd, so not only did I look reasonable and composed, but also I clearly won.

Shower argument fantasies do come true.

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Transition timeline so far.(NHS)

So my kindle can’t do tumblr properly so I’m gonna put this into a page/category later: 

Coming out: May 2009

Name & documents change: November 2009

1st GIC appointment: November 2010

Testosterone (injectible): May 2011

Unplanned discharge from GIC: February 2012 >:[

Consult with surgeon: November 2012

Top Surgery: July 2013 (Caty Milroy)

Initiated process of trying to get funding for revision: March 2015

Switch from injection to gel: January 2016

1st Appointment with new GIC: October 2017

Consultation with Miss Dabritz: April 2018 (Hopefully soon)

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9qQrB93nrk)

Hello Dear Ones, Recently I found myself in need of medical care, but due to my trans-ness and mental-health-ness I was treated very different at the hospital. Transphobia sucks. So does ablism.

ARTICLE LINK: https://www.dailydot.com/irl/trans-broken-arm-syndrome-healthcare/

Believe yourself. Believe in yourself. Love, Jo

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A 2016 panel investigated transgender health care in Massachusetts, the results of which will be released this week

SOAPBOX SATURDAY CONTINUES:

Massachusetts prides itself on being a medical mecca, but transgender people say they regularly encounter ignorance, discrimination, and even hostility in the doctor’s office. Mason Dunn, a 31-year-old transgender man, painfully recalls being turned away from a specialist’s practice. While he has transitioned to male, he still requires routine pap smears and other gynecological care. “They told me they don’t serve my needs,“ Dunn said. “It was really hard.” Dunn participated in a 2016 panel investigating transgender health care in Massachusetts, the results of which will be released this week. Another participant said he went to a hospital emergency room for an asthma attack. But once in the exam room, the doctor called in colleagues to “take a look at this.’’ Another patient was mortified to hear a registration clerk “loudlyinsistingthat I had to be either male or female, so which one was it.” The person walked out. These experiences are described in the first report from The Health Equity Roundtable, run by the foundation of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a large New England health insurer. The program is intended to help the health care industry tackle health disparities by soliciting input from individuals directly affected. An analysis last year from The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law estimated that about 1.4 million American adults identify as transgender. That same report put the Massachusetts transgender population at about 30,000 adults. These estimates are far higher than previous ones, and medical providers are just beginning to recognize this group’s huge unmet needs. Of the 35 people who participated in the Roundtable, 19 identified as transgender and nine said they have a transgender family member. The group also included doctors. Participants said medical professionals often lack even basic knowledge about transgender health issues, and caregivers on the panel reported a widespread lack of training…

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