#transgender health care

[genderqueerpositivity]

The Campaign for Southern Equality, in partnership with state and local organizations, is providing rapid response support to the families of youth who are impacted by anti-transgender healthcare bans that are passing across the South. We are providing grants, navigation support, and resources to impacted families as they ensure their children can access the care they need and deserve. We are currently providing support to impacted families in Mississippi, Tennessee and South Carolina, and we are preparing to work in other states.

Please join us by donating.

We are honored to work on this project in partnership with The TRANS Program, Mississippi Rising, Inclusion TN, and OUT Memphis.

(ID: text reads "Donate to support the Southern Trans Youth Emergency Fund. Fuel our work to provide direct support to trans youth and families impacted by anti-transgender healthcare bans across the south", below this the Campaign for Southern Equality logo and a link to the fund on their website.)

#trans #transgender #transgender health care #trans healthcare #trans healthcare bans #gender affirming care #trans healthcare fund #trans healthcare funds #queer #nonbinary #genderqueer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtqiap

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Holy shit, Ohio's republican governor just vetoed a bill that would have banned gender-affirming health care! I'm stunned. And so, so grateful. Wow!

#transgender health care #gender-affirming care #trans health care #transgender #trans rights are human rights #holy shit Ohio

[gwydionmisha]

#Transgender Health Care #Trans

[crossdreamers]

Debunking common myths about gender-affirming care for youth

The number of youth who openly identify as transgender has nearly doubled since 2017, according to a study from UCLA's Williams Institute. In 2022, 16 states have proposed legislation that would restrict access to gender-affirming care for patients under the age of 18. 

Dr. Meredithe McNamara, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, joins PBS’ Geoff Bennett to discuss.

Youtube video embedded below.

Puberty blockers

Using puberty blockers for trans kids is safe, McNamara says:

We know a lot about the safety of puberty blockers. We derived that evidence based initially back in 2011, or so from studies done int he treatment of precocious puberty. Precocious puberty is when a young child develops into more of a an adolescent body at a rapid rate, and we don't know why it happens. 

Puberty blockers have been used successfully and safely in those children to allow them to develop socially in tandem with their peers.And we've studied mineral density, psychosocial outcomes, among othert hings, and it's been shown that that treatment is safe.

Surgery

McNamaray says this about the media’s attention to surgery:

In the vast majority of times any form of gender affirming surgery does not happen before the legal age of majority.

And I do want to point out that in these politicized and misinformed debates on gender firming care surgery is being overly represented to stoke fear in the public and to convince people that politicians should be intervening in healthcare decisions between parents and physicians and patients themselves. 

#trans #transgender #science #nonbinary #transgender kids #transgender health care #lgbt #lgtqa #lgbt+

[zmyaro]

<Sarcastic Natalie Contrapoints voice> This is like a super vulnerable moment for me!

I decided to Ramble about how this topic has weighed on me in the most Zachary way possible: a weird tech metaphor that ended up fitting better than expected.

#Me #Personal #Transgender #Medical Transition #Transgender Health Care #Gender #RambleZ

[godsandcrows]

How to put your gender identity and name on your medical record

If you're transgender and wondering how to basically "come out" and tell all of your doctors what your gender identity and name are, this post is for you. Go to your doctor's website and find the patient portal, specifically MyChart. Now before you go running off like "oh that's not what I use", know that organizations can customize what it's called. Go to the login page and scroll to the very bottom. Check and see of it says MyChart by Epic near the footer. If it doesn't, proceed with your running off, best of luck!

Login to your MyChart account. [or, if you don't have one, get one. they're awesome. then come back here!] [***as a disclaimer, going forward, each hospital network gets to decide what settings they turn on. i will say things that are possible, but if you're doctor's office doesn't have it on, you won't be able to do it. check out the follow up post about what you can do about it.]

Near the top right is your name and probably a photo that the very nice receptionist took at the most awful angle and you didn't want to make a scene about it but also you want it to burn in a fire. Yeah, click that photo and you can change it to one you want.

Top left is the menu. Somewhere in that long list is one called Personal Information. For me it's near the very bottom. In there, you should see a section called Details About Me. Click edit and you can change your Preferred First Name. This does not need to be your legal name! You do not need to have court papers or a matching ID to change your name on your medical records. Gender identity is where you can put your gender (obvs). If the way you identify is not listed on there, select the other one, and then the next time you go to the doctor tell them what it is. They have a free-text field where they can record identities not built out in their system.

Right now (2022) it's not possible to enter your pronouns from your account. You can tell someone on your care team what they are and ask them to document it. I usually recommend a nurse since they do a lot of the documentation before your appointment, shout out to our nurse heroes out there. <3

#transgender #transgender health care #transgender man #transgender woman #queer #lgbt #health care #preferred name #gender identity #nonbinary #agender #trans rights

[kiramoore626]

Governor DeWine Uses Anti-Abortion Tactic To Target Trans Adults With Defacto Ban

Governor DeWine Uses Anti-Abortion Tactic To Target Trans Adults With Defacto Ban DeWine announced rules on trans care on Friday in order to stave off a potential veto override of the state’s youth gender affirming care ban. These rules would kick most adults off their care.

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#Gov. DeWine #LGBTQ #Transgender #Transgender Health Care #Transgender News #Transgender Youth #US

[incognitopolls]

Not asking about medical complications since that's sort of a different question; this poll is asking about the aesthetic and/or functional results. Obviously a person can have multiple different procedures done with different levels of satisfaction; select any one that applies.

Gender-affirming surgery includes but is not limited to procedures like breast removal, reduction, or augmentation; facial feminization or masculinization; the construction of different genitals; liposuction/body sculpting, etc.

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #polls about health #submitted nov 17 #polls about the body #polls about lgbtq stuff #lgbtq #trans #transgender #gender affirming care #gender affirming healthcare #gender affirming surgery #trans healthcare #surgery #medical

[she-is-ovarit]

Trans research and scientific consensus

(2020) - Study of 139,829 students finds that in comparison to other students, transgender identity, especially non-binary identity, is associated more with perpetrating bullying than being bullied. Non-binary identity was most strongly associated with involvement in bullying, followed by [transgender] opposite sex identity and cisgender identity. 

(2023) 21 leading experts on pediatric gender medicine from 8 countries wrote a letter to Wall Street Journal expressing disagreement over how gender dysphoria in youth is treated, voicing concerns against things such as the affirmative model and research conducted outside of the US has found hormonal interventions for gender dysphoria to be without reliable evidence. Among these international experts is Dr. Rita Kaltiala, chief psychiatrist at Tampere university gender clinic and author of several peer-reviewed studies on trans medicine and Finland's top authority on pediatric gender care.

(2023) Landmark study from Denmark on 3,800 transgender patients pulled data from hospital records and applications from legal gender changes and discovered 43% of this group had a psychiatric illness compared with 7% of non-trans group, and despite "gender affirming care" and legal gender changes, still had 7.7 the rate of suicide attempts and 3.5 times the rate of suicide deaths. Researchers state this rate is likely even higher due to missing data.

(2016) Study finds association with increased risk of multiple sclerosis for trans women taking estrogen/reducing testosterone levels.

(2023) Metadata study shows, at best, no improvement for patients in gender-affirming care. "The conclusions of the systematic reviews of evidence for adolescents are consistent with long-term adult studies, which failed to show credible improvements in mental health and suggested a pattern of treatment-associated harms. Three recent papers examined the studies that underpin the practice of youth gender transition and found the research to be deeply flawed. Evidence does not support the notion that “affirmative care” of today’s adolescents is net beneficial."

(2011) Long term follow up of 324 transgender people having undergone sex reassignment surgery in Sweden, found that trans women retained male patterned incidents and rates of violence and had a greater significance and rate of rape and sexual violence than cisgender men. The study also found, "Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group."

(2020) Largest study to date on 641,860 people finds association with autism and "gender diversity", "Gender-diverse people also report, on average, more traits associated with autism, such as sensory difficulties, pattern-recognition skills and lower rates of empathy — or accurately understanding and responding to another person’s emotional state".

(2022) US study examining 10 years of data on 952 people finds large percentages of young adults prescribed hormones for trans identity no longer getting the drugs 4 years later. Discontinuation rate for both sexes combined = 30%. Female discontinuation rate as high as 44%. The standard disinformation pushed is that only 1-2% of people who begin medical transition end up desisting. But these figures show that in this cohort of young adults, the overall rate of discontinuing hormone treatment ranged from a low of 10% to a high of 44% within a space of just 4 years.

Abruzzese et al. 2023 'The Myth of “Reliable Research” in Pediatric Gender Medicine: A critical evaluation of the Dutch Studies—and research that has followed'

More to come.

#trans #transgender research #transgender health #trans health care #gender critical #detrans #desistance #detransition #FTM #MTF #non binary #gender studies #gender identity #LGBTQ #trans identity #gender diverse #autism #gender dysphoria #gender affirming care #gender affirmation #transitioning #protect trans kids #protect trans youth

[genderqueerpositivity]

Just how many people are transgender in the United States is not clear, but in South Carolina it could be nearly 3,000 children, according to a Post and Courier analysis.

In a letter sent amid the budget debate, MUSC said emphatically it does not offer gender reassignment surgery to anyone under 18. Its services for transgender children, offered since 2007, include “access to mental health providers, endocrine medicine providers, social workers and dieticians,” Dr. David Zaas, CEO of MUSC Health’s Charleston Division, wrote in the letter dated March 29.

But the letter didn’t appease Sen. Josh Kimbrell, who authored the ban on MUSC providing gender-transitioning services for minors.

“It doesn’t really say what they do, that’s the problem,” said the Spartanburg Republican, responding to Democrats who accused him of trying to deprive children who may be suicidal of mental health care. “They expressly say what they don’t do, but they don’t clarify what they do.”

Denying that he wanted to withhold lifesaving counseling from any child, he added, “I do, however, think it’s inappropriate for the state to fund a clinic whose whole purpose is to encourage a child to make a decision that may be irreversible.”

Approval of the budget directive that applies only to MUSC came more than a year after a Democrat in the House filed a bill broadly banning gender-transitioning surgery and hormones for anyone under 18. That bill, co-sponsored by one other Democrat and 28 Republicans, drew the ire of his party leaders and got national attention, but it went nowhere in the Statehouse.

″(Opponents of transitioning) tried to pass gender-affirming bans last year and failed at passing a ban,” Condon said. “So instead (they) just used financial pressure with the budget proviso that was included.”

Officially, a state budget directive applies only to taxpayer money approved by the Legislature. But it can be virtually impossible for any public agency to prove a specific program and its employees are wholly funded by other sources. And ignoring legislators’ budget orders can put future public funding at risk.

This fiscal year, MUSC is getting $188.9 million in state funding, but that is 3.5 percent of its $5.4 billion total budget, according to state budget documents and MUSC officials.

After first being assured MUSC could still continue transgender care for minors without touching state funding, Condon said there was an apparent change of heart later last year.

“They felt like the easier way to handle it was to stop providing this care,” she said. So, for the doctors who were prescribing care, “now the doctor’s boss is saying, ‘Don’t do it because it is politically unfavorable,’” Condon said.

MUSC also canceled an LGBT health conference it was slated to host later this month, which is now being picked up by Condon’s group without any participation from MUSC.

It remains unclear when exactly MUSC ended the services. But the result stands Mia among an estimated 150 patients of that pediatric clinic in downtown Charleston scrambling to find treatment elsewhere, even as they have yet to receive official notice from MUSC.

#south carolina #transgender health care #transgender health care bans #trans healthcare bans #transgender #trans #nonbinary #genderqueer #lgbtqia #suicide tw #transphobia tw #news #musc #medical university of south carolina #protect trans youth #protect trans kids

[gwydionmisha]

Efforts to restrict transgender health care endure in 2024, with more adults targeted

The Republican Wars on Bodily Autonomy, Health Care, and Human Rights continue.

#Transgender Health Care #2024 #Republican Agenda #Transgender Health Care Ban #Bodily Autonomy #News

[uncanny-tranny]

The trans experience of getting lucky with a new primary care provider who doesn't care about your transness or transition so long as you're getting the proper care

Manifesting this for every trans person because I finally felt like a normal human being going to a doctor

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #i have avoided doctors for like... four years now because of how awful they are toward trans people 🤩 (sarcastic star-eyes emoji) #i thought i didn't have anxiety anymore until i made a first appointment with this new primary care provider i have... #...and when they were doing my vitals and got to the blood pressure screen i was shaking (which i normally am tbf) #i will be fair and say i have had more negative experiences with mental health providers though #but since i've avoided doctor-doctors i haven't had the time TO have negative experiences #my dad was actually really kind and asked if my doctor tried being transphobic and i realized... NO! he didn't even try! #my dad's first question was if dr. [redacted] tried to talk me out of testosterone and i was like shit... no he didn't!! #and i felt like a normal person seeing the doctor albeit with a lot of anxiety but i was treated normally :) #it feels SO nice after feeling like a lab rat or like in the movies where a psychiatrist comes out to explain what transsexuality #explain what transsexuality is*

[lilrobotman]

Hey trans mascs on HRT who are feeling hair loss p hard: rosemary oil may be a good option if you want to promote a bit of new growth and keep your hair nice and healthy. I've had decent results using it for about 4 months now, parts of my hair that were thinning have thickened back up a fair amount

There are a few studies showing that rosemary oil is about as effective as other hair loss treatments like here and here, but it's definitely a field needing more study, though I've seen plenty of testimonies from others backing up its efficiency (me included!)

Some things of note:

-Obviously I'm only speaking from personal experience and not everyone is the same! I can not speak to how effective this will be for you.

-Like with hair loss treatments, if you stop using it, your hair will return to its former state. However the great thing with rosemary oil is that it takes forever to go through a bottle. You only need 5-10 drops per application and you only need to use it a couple times a week. Most bottles of rosemary essential oil cost about 10 dollars, which I find to be a decent price considering how long it can last.

-Additionally, rosemary oil seems to only work on thickening up pre-existing and thinning hair, not make new hair (at least for me). My high peaks have hardly gained any new growth but what I do have has thickened up quite a bit.

If you want to try rosemary oil, please make sure to only use it 1-3 times a week and mix it with a shampoo or carrier oil (jojoba and coconut are good ones). Rosemary oil is really strong. Dont apply it to you bare scalp without diluting it a bit. Make sure you scrub it into your scalp for a couple minutes, and most importantly, be patient. Like many hair loss treatments, it takes about 4-6 months to really start seeing a change. I still suggest looking into more detailed application descriptions as applying it correctly is rather important, applying straight up rosemary oil to your hair will probably make things worse.

Additionally, these tips are coming from a white guy with cowlicks and stiff hair, if you're someone with a different hair texture, please make sure to research what others like you may have said about applying rosemary oil. Always use a carrier unless the product you get says otherwise!

DO NOT USE IT FOR BEARD GROWTH. The androgen, dihydrotestosterone (DHT), is what promotes male pattern baldness but it also promotes beard growth. Supposedly (and this is not a claim I have 100% verified as scientifically true but I've seen this explanation used quite frequently) rosemary oil helps block the production of DHT. So using it on your beard will likely not help it.

Please know this is a post with good intentions, I'm not trying to give anyone false hope. My hair loss really made me stressed and dropped my confidence a lot. Some hair loss medicines have been known to cause trans mascs to start their period again and their overall efficiency is flaky, so I didn't want to try any of them. Rosemary oil has been very helpful for me and it could be for you! The worst thing the oil can do is make your hair smell nice, even if it doesnt give you a lions mane. Just remember to be patient and do some research about applying before starting :]

#Eventually I will accept my hair is going and stop using it but for now this has been really helping my mental health #Long post #Hair care #Trans masc #Trans man #Hair loss #Transgender

[floral-ashes]

Every time someone says we shouldn’t allow gender-affirming care for minors because evidence is low quality, you need to ask them if they’re suggesting banning abortion and birth control.

However they answer, they’ll be showing their whole ass.

I talk about their respective evidence bases here.

#transgender #trans #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queer #gay #lesbian #lgbt #gender affirming care #science #abortion #birth control #reproductive rights #reproductive health #reproductive justice

[radfemie]

Women have the right to ask for female doctors, morticians, nurses, all health care providers in general. It is not sexist or wrong to only want a female health provider seeing you naked, washing you, and tending to your other needs - basic or not. 

Men do not have the right to ignore a woman asking for a woman provider instead of him, same for men who want a male provider instead of female. 

Even when a woman is dead, she has the right to only want women - adult human females, to prepare her body. 

#lesbian #lesbianism #lesbian love #women #women's rights #men #womens mental health #health care #radical feminism #RadFem #transgender #trans #radical feminist #rad fem #radical feminst #radfems please touch #radfem safe #radf3m #radfem thoughts #radfems please interact #Tras #Transwoman #transmen