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two days before i got word that the clinic was in danger of closing, i got a call from one of our participants. she had received a hormone prescription from us, but as a condition of healthy san francisco to have for coverage, it needed to be written by her medical provider. she was being told that there would not have an appointment open for her and another two months. the public health system is already stretched thin. if we are thrown back into the system, how can that fragile netwo...

then there were reassigned to lyon-martin. a lot of those folks are facing losing the mental services they then have. the work on things like project health to train other doctors. i clear -- i fear for my clients that will not get reassigned to another clinic in a reasonable time. people are likely to not get health care at all. they face the fear of not being able to find doctors like they have at lyon-martin. i fear people will not get primary care. they may resort to st. hormones o...

substance use common diet, smoking cessation, and other things that lyon-martin does. there is nowhere else to refer to the young people i work with. i think the $150,000 the clinic is asking for is the minimum the city can do. i would encourage you to do as much as you can. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you, supervisors. i am laura thomas. i am a former patient of lyon- martin. i access services there about 20 years ago, when i first came to san franc...

i am asking for support to keep lyon-martin from two places. as a low-end, transgendered gay man, i find it difficult to receive competent medical care without simultaneously giving an education to my provider. at lyon-martin when i sought medical care, the things that make me medically interesting or not of interest to my provider. my doctors treated my body as it was, not my identity, and i got a diagnoses, treated, and i can move on with my life. transgendered people, will not alway...