Is There A Doctor In The House

Last Friday I went to a new doctor, he is a specialist. His nurse could be a Muslim, I don't know for sure because are many religions where a woman wear a headscarf and a long dress. She didn't even blink when she walked into the examination room. Then the doctor walked in and he showed no surprise of course they could have been tipped off about me by the front office staff.

But the thing is they had no reaction to me, they were all very professional.

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But many are not lucky, Trump judges are not ruling in our favor, Trump’s Supreme Court is a big question and many companies are not covering healthcare for us.

Transgender employee at center of contract controversy pledges to fight on
Argus Leader
By Makenzie Huber South Dakota Searchlight
December 30, 2022


Jack Fonder trusted his doctor. He’d spent years under her care, and she understood his medical history.

But that changed when he transitioned.

“It was one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had,” he recalled.

Fonder is a transgender man – a person whose gender identity is as a man, but was assigned female sex at birth.

While his doctor hadn’t done it intentionally, she repeatedly used his deadname, or birth name, in conversation. The doctor also misgendered him by referring to him as a woman instead of a man during the visit, he said. The missteps grinded against Fonder.

But now politics are throwing in a monkey-wrench.

But earlier this month, Gov. Kristi Noem abruptly terminated a contract from the state Department of Health that secured funding for Fonder’s position. The Transformation Project plans to sue the state for alleged civil rights violations related to the cancellation.

The nonprofit was awarded about $136,000 in federal funds to hire and train a community health worker to help connect members of the LGBTQ community to physical and mental health care. The funds, dispensed by the state, were earmarked by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control for the hiring of community health workers to serve rural areas and marginalized communities.

I have sat on many committees where the Connecticut Department of Health was working with the LGBTQ+ community including the Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective where they get healthcare funding from the state. But Republicans have weaponized the funding from the NIH.