A Short Post This Morning

I am attending an eight o'clock meeting at a university to help them with a new trans clinic.

A well know university is planning to start up a full service clinic for trans people and they are holding community meetings to find out the needs of the community, I think that one of the topics that need to be address is that the clinic needs to included clients from cradle to grave. Children are coming out at a younger age and also senior citizens are coming out at an older age and they need to accommodate all trans people. Each age group has their own needs for medical, psychiatric, and legal help.

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While we are on healthcare for us…

What does it mean to misgender a transgender person?
Charlotte Observer
By Anna Douglas
May 7, 2019

For much of his life, Liam Johns has dreaded the doctor’s office.

Liam, 30, isn’t scared of needles. And he isn’t afraid of blood.

The problem starts in the lobby of a doctor’s office, when Liam is asked to sign in.

What happens next — write your name, age, health history and current prescriptions — may seem routine for most people. But for a transgender person, these questions can be uncomfortable.

Depending on the answers — like, whether they’ve had sex-reassignment surgery, or are taking prescription hormones to aid their transition — filling out the form in a doctor’s office is like coming out, all over again.

Beyond the waiting room, transgender patients commonly face two problems: doctors with little to no formal education on trans health needs, and health care workers who misgender them by using the wrong name or pronoun, often without even realizing their mistake.
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But one critical aspect of Liam’s experience was outside of his and Dickerson’s control: The hospital system’s electronic medical records software had no option for listing any sex other than his sex assigned at birth.

This kind of system, according to trans advocates, is one of the main reasons transgender people are often misidentified in their own medical records and misgendered during doctor or hospital visits.

The doctor’s front office also needs to be trained, they are the frontline and are often overlooked.