Archive for the 'medical' Category
Sprinter Caster Semenya has been placed on suicide watch in the wake of leaked tests apparently showing evidence of intersexuality as well as the negative press she’s received. The news of this has prompted Lord Coe, a vice-president of the IAAF (which oversees the World Championships), to push for mandatory pre-emptive gender testing, to [...]
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Popular opinion has it that Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS, often popularly nicknamed “sex change surgery”) is a cosmetic issue and motivated by a simple “want” to be female or male, by someone who was not born as such. However, extensive medical research into transsexuality dating as far back as the 1920s and continuing through modern [...]
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The Prerequisites to “Woman”
A women-only pharmacy — according to reports, possibly the first of its kind in North America — is opening in Vancouver on Tuesday. This pharmacy is designed to offer a comfortable, open environment, woman-specific information and non-judgmental counseling. They are also planning to add a “resource centre behind Lu’s to get more health information from [...]
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Every so often, I receive an email through the albertatrans website feedback form that challenges me with something I hadn’t thought of before. Recently, a query came in from a cisgender male who thought that I might be a good person to ask about finding a surgeon willing to do an “enhancement phalloplasty.”
Now, FTM phalloplasties [...]
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Almost A Person
(Part of GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine’s coverage of the delisting of GRS in Alberta)
It came in as registered mail. This was good news of course, so when I’d received the notice, I ran down to the postal outlet to collect the envelope that would have news about my eligibility for surgery. I knew what the [...]
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When Finance Minister Iris Evans discussed the Province’s decision to delist Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS) on the day after the budget was handed down, she said, “I didn’t even know we covered that.” Reportedly, there was a look of hate in her eyes as she said it (I didn’t see the report, but have heard [...]
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To Our Allies: Two Ways To Help
(The following is particular to Albertans. While we appreciate support from out-of-Province, the people we need to respond need must be constituents. If you know Alberta residents who would be willing to support, please forward this to them)
I greatly appreciate the desire of our allies to support the trans community now, in the time of [...]
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This is a quick note for Canadian readers and those interested on the way of things for transfolk up here.
On April 7th, 2009, the Province of Alberta has delisted funding for GRS surgery. I’m awaiting confirmation as to whether this affects people in the queue, and how much of our medical process is affected. A number [...]
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Q: When is reparative therapy not reparative therapy?
A: When the patients are gender variant children. Then it’s okay, or so the implicit judgment from the American Psychiatric Association would still seem to say. But more on that in a moment.
The debate surrounding one of the controversial doctors assigned to revise the diagnoses used for either [...]
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This article has been a long time coming. Each time I’d revised it, some new discovery added a pertinent dimension that needed to be addressed. But one thing is certain: the future of medical care for transsexuals is changing — whether this change comes in the form of a delisting of Gender Identity Disorder as [...]
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