Posted on 01/23/2013 1:46:22 PM PST by Morgana
Anyone else feel like it really is a tide that is turning these days? The American College of Nurse Midwives issued a statement in support of working towards quality, competent care for trans and gender non-conforming people.
Woo-hoo!
~ Radical Doula Miriam Zoila Pérez, January 17, excited over a recent statement issued by ACNM that “addresses the need for education about transgender issues in midwifery education.” The statement explains:
HIV infection within the gender variant community is 4 times the rate of the general population; rates of drug, alcohol, and tobacco use, and depression and suicide attempts are also higher. These outcomes disproportionately affect gender variant people of color.
[G]ender variant individuals desire parenting roles and can and do create biological families….
Musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, breast, and pelvic care for individuals who have undergone hormonal and/or surgical therapy is typically straightforward but in some cases requires additional training.
[Photo, via UK Telegraph, is of pregnant transgendered California couple Scott and Thomas Moore, both born as girls, and their two adopted sons, "children of a former female partner of Thomas's." Scott is due with his/her first baby next month.]
See the movie “One flew over the coo-coos nest”
And I thought I was confused.
I am SO thankful I was brought up the strict and old-fashioned way.
None of this “anything goes” crap was accepted.
That’s pretty rare,isn’t it?
The testosterone injections must have a negative effect on the baby’s/fetus’ development.
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