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.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“They can’t get a pap smear, but they can get a poop smear.”
Perhaps, but many of these women can be tested for their testosterone and sperm count in addition to undergoing examinations and treatments for their vaginal health.
The only sex that really matters is chromosomal sex. Everything else is just appearances.
“The only sex that really matters is chromosomal sex. Everything else is just appearances.”
Tell that to the women who are surprised to learn their sex chromosomes are 46 XY.
“The only sex that really matters is chromosomal sex. Everything else is just appearances.”
It takes a lot more than just the male 46, XY chromosome to produce a functional male/man, in appearances or functions.
See:
Brain responses to sexual images in 46,XY women with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome are female-typical
Stephan B Hamann; Jennifer S Stevens; Jennifer S Stevens; Janice Hassett Vick; Kristina Bryk; Charmian A. Quigley; Charmian A. Quigley; Sheri Berenbaum;
Hormones and Behavior (Impact Factor: 4.63). 10/2014; 66(5). DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2014.09.013
ABSTRACT Androgens, estrogens, and sex chromosomes are the major influences guiding sex differences in brain development, yet their relative roles and importance remain unclear. Individuals with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS) offer a unique opportunity to address these issues. Although women with CAIS have a Y chromosome, testes, and produce male-typical levels of androgens, they lack functional androgen receptors preventing responding to their androgens. Thus, they develop a female physical phenotype, are reared as girls, and develop into women. Because sexually differentiated brain development in primates is determined primarily by androgens, but may be affected by sex chromosome complement, it is currently unknown whether brain structure and function in women with CAIS is more like that of women or men. In the first functional neuroimaging study of (46,XY) women with CAIS, typical (46,XX) women, and typical (46, XY) men, we found that men showed greater amygdala activation to sexual images than did either typical women or women with CAIS. Typical women and women with CAIS had highly similar patterns of brain activation, indicating that a Y chromosome is insufficient for male-typical human brain responses. Because women with CAIS produce male-typical or elevated levels of testosterone which is aromatized to estradiol these results rule out aromatization of testosterone to estradiol as a determinate of sex differences in patterns of brain activation to sexual images, We cannot, however, rule out an effect of social experience on the brain responses of women with CAIS as all were raised as girls.
Brain responses to sexual images in 46,XY women with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome are female-typical - ResearchGate. Available from: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/266397866_Brain_responses_to_sexual_images_in_46XY_women_with_complete_androgen_insensitivity_syndrome_are_female-typical [accessed Oct 4, 2015].
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