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Hello.
If you already feel inclined to make some asanine remark about trans people, please stop reading right now.
I am interested in starting an organization for medical students interested in trans health issues (to the best of my knowledge no such group exists on a national level). The primary purpose of said group would be education and advocacy. If enough people are interested, we could eventually have conferences and conduct original research. Anyway this group could at least be a source of useful information for providers and policy makers.
I imagine the first step will be making a website and e-mail listserv. Then we can work on drafting a mission statement and exploring chapter interest at our respective schools.
Here are some goals I identified off the top of my head, but this list is likely to change many times:
As advocates of improved health and well-being for the broader trans community, we adhere to the following goals:
-promotion of provider awareness and sensitivity towards trans persons in all clinical health fields
-training more physicians to meet specific trans health needs
-encouragement of major insurance providers and Medicaid to cover gender care
-recognition of SRS as a valid and reasonable medical procedure
-reduction of the prevailing eligibility requirements for SRS; provision of hormone antagonists to qualified youth by age 12 and cross-sex hormones by age 14
-removal of SRS as a precondition for recognition as a legal member of a given sex
-provision of complete anatomical care while affirming the patient's gender identity
-quantifying and addressing trans health disparities, especially among low income and/or minority urban youth, including recognition of homelessness, unsafe sex, drug abuse, HIV infection, silicone use and lack of provider access as serious, but fixable problems.
-advocacy for trans persons on a national policy level (non-discrimination, affirmative action, etc)
Again, contact me if you are genuinly interested in productive collaboration. Please, don't embarrass yourself by posting any stupid comments.
Thank you.
If you already feel inclined to make some asanine remark about trans people, please stop reading right now.
I am interested in starting an organization for medical students interested in trans health issues (to the best of my knowledge no such group exists on a national level). The primary purpose of said group would be education and advocacy. If enough people are interested, we could eventually have conferences and conduct original research. Anyway this group could at least be a source of useful information for providers and policy makers.
I imagine the first step will be making a website and e-mail listserv. Then we can work on drafting a mission statement and exploring chapter interest at our respective schools.
Here are some goals I identified off the top of my head, but this list is likely to change many times:
As advocates of improved health and well-being for the broader trans community, we adhere to the following goals:
-promotion of provider awareness and sensitivity towards trans persons in all clinical health fields
-training more physicians to meet specific trans health needs
-encouragement of major insurance providers and Medicaid to cover gender care
-recognition of SRS as a valid and reasonable medical procedure
-reduction of the prevailing eligibility requirements for SRS; provision of hormone antagonists to qualified youth by age 12 and cross-sex hormones by age 14
-removal of SRS as a precondition for recognition as a legal member of a given sex
-provision of complete anatomical care while affirming the patient's gender identity
-quantifying and addressing trans health disparities, especially among low income and/or minority urban youth, including recognition of homelessness, unsafe sex, drug abuse, HIV infection, silicone use and lack of provider access as serious, but fixable problems.
-advocacy for trans persons on a national policy level (non-discrimination, affirmative action, etc)
Again, contact me if you are genuinly interested in productive collaboration. Please, don't embarrass yourself by posting any stupid comments.
Thank you.