Posted on 10/04/2015 12:04:59 PM PDT by PROCON
Desperate for hormonal treatments, transgender patients were turning to friends and illicit dealers for unregulated cocktails of drugs. Many were left with health complications and infections that landed them in the waiting room of a busy South Los Angeles clinic.
"For the most part, they were basically getting care on the streets," said Jim Mangia, president and chief executive of St. John's Well Child and Family Center, which runs the West 58th Street health center as part of a network of low-cost Los Angeles-area clinics.
After years of dealing with medical problems created by what he saw as a major gap in the healthcare system, Mangia created a dedicated transgender medical program at the nonprofit South L.A. facility that now serves more than 500 patients. Such specialized care "just wasn't there before" for these patients, he said.
Indeed, Alexa Vasquez, who traveled four hours by bus for an appointment at St. John's on a recent weekday, said that when she began transitioning two years ago, she struggled to find an affordable clinic offering the care she needs. Friends offered her what they said were hormones, but she was scared to take them.
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Only one thing to do: more taxes for studies, and more laws!
i wish none of these people any harm
but they are doing it to themselves too
they should stay home and make good lives for themselves
not try to make themselves into what they are not
we are what we are, folks
and we are not here long enough to waste years messing around with the package we came in
imho
If you like your gender, you can keep your gender.
I’d probably check all 3
0.14% of LA County population, IF you believe the 14,500 number. Let’s upset all of society’s norms for this minuscule minority. Makes sense to me.
“For the most part, they were basically getting care on the streets,” said Jim Mangia, president and chief executive of St. John’s Well Child and
Unfortunately many people with mental health illness are in this position.
hormone treatments is not health care.
Boo effing hoo.
Hint to mentally chall...er...transgendered “people”: If you go to the doctor’s office dressed up as a person possessing a gender that you are NOT, don’t expect the highly educated physician to personally regard you as anything but a candidate for the loony bin. He or she will most probably treat you as needed...regardless of your silly little micro agression imaginations.
Oh, and just STFU. We really do not give a shi...er...Obamaspeech about your mental problems.
There must be a lot of confusion as to which doctors to visit...
Man, is the media shoving this transgender crap down our throats since Bruce Jenner.
The media has received their marching orders..
May it be possible that this err.. cocktail... of umm... hormones... could be cancer causing?
Mental illness is a bitch...and worse when liberal encourage them to self mutilate.
One can change gender, although one can’t always get others to go along with it. One cannot change sex, no matter what.
That’s not the issue. They aren’t claiming that they’re having trouble getting flu shots, antibiotics, or treatment for a broken leg, regardless of how silly they dress or act. The “health care” that’s “difficult” is measures to facilitate their impersonation of the opposite sex.
Of course it’s difficult.
The doctor doesn’t know whether to prescribe a Pap Smear or a PSA test.
I’d probably check all 3
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Me, too.
They can’t get a pap smear, but they can get a poop smear.
“One can change gender, although one can’t always get others to go along with it. One cannot change sex, no matter what.”
That is not entirely true, depending on how you try to define the meaning of sex. For example:
Hormonal sex. Yes, natural and artificial changes in the balance of sex hormones changes secondary sex characteristics and hormonal sex.
Chromosomal sex. Yes and no, some natural somatic chromosomes result in changes of morphological sex, mental sex, and various secondary sex characteristics during prenatal and/or post-natal development. Mosaic sex chromosomes produce a person who is both female and male at the cellular level, where some cells carry female sex chromosomes, some cells carry male sex chromosomes, and the morphological sex characteristics may be predominantly female, male, or a blend of female and male. Such mosaic chromosomal sex may not be subject to chromosomal sex change, yet may be subject to hormonal or other types of sex change.
Morphological sex. Yes, natural and artificial processes can change morphological sex, mental sex, and various secondary sex characteristics.
There are additional categories of sex definitions not used in the above examples.
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