Nonprofit with a new name, but the same services, including free PrEP prescriptions
LGBTQ people face significant health barriers.
Faith Bryan moved from California to Minnesota in 2015. She’d just retired and was on medical assistance from the State of Minnesota to go with her Medicare coverage. Bryan’s insurance denied a request for facial feminization surgery, or FFS.
“I was denied FFS despite Department of Health (DHS) policy that said it would follow the guidelines set by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) that required each case to be evaluated on its own merits, a case-by-case review, rather than a blanket denial because something was not covered under most circumstances,” Bryan said.
When it comes to American law and politics, transgender health, abortion access and aid-in-dying options for patients with terminal illnesses may seem like separate issues, writes Alexis Drutchas. But the same fundamental question of human rights underpinning each one: Do adults with capacity hold the ultimate authority over their own bodies and the medical decisions for their minor children, or don't they?
On Sunday, CBS News’
60 Minutes aired an important news segment on the phenomenon of detransitioning when a person who identified as transgender and undertook various interventions to confirm a cross-sex identity later rejects a transgender identity and embraces his or her biological sex. Many transgender activists have objected to news outlets covering these important stories, but
60 Minutes ran with the story, anyway.
“I can’t believe that I transitioned and detransitioned, including hormones and surgery, in the course of, like, less than one year. It’s completely crazy,” Grace Lidinsky-Smith told
Lidinsky-Smith suffered from serious depression and developed gender dysphoria in her early 20s. She began searching for answers in transgender communities on the internet.
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