transmogrified... 
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.
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Fixed it.
LA, the land of fruits and nuts.
So are a lot of other “groups”
They are able to get all the healthcare they want. But what they’re really after is Freecare.
I talked to an elderly lady who had to fill out a new form at her Dr.’s office. She said there three areas to check on gender:
___Male
___Female
___Other- Please specify______________________________
“But what they’re really after is Freecare.”
In their cases, FreakCare.
I mean, they even have copays to pay if they do psychiatric counseling for their mental disorder where they think that they're a woman when they are actually a man! They should pay no different than when a man thinks he's a dog - it is the same disorder, isn't it?
I still don't understand how there's all this acceptance for transgendered people yet nothing for transspecies people - how exactly do liberals draw that line? Or do they?
If you decide to keep your given gender, then you will not need the specialized treatment...
I can see where there might be a difficulty for an anatomical male to get a pap swear...
(Blush)
Can’t they get head doctors in programs?
Oh, cut it out....
I see what you did there....
One cannot change genders.
They manufacture their own health issue. Meanwhile kids needing money for genuine treatment die.
Typical elitist health care.
No one told them to lop their weewees off and to try to act like women.
transmogrified...
Just trying to stem the problem...
Who cares.
Give me a break. What a load. They need to make a “choice”. Liberals like “choice”. Dress up like a woman or get free healthcare. Geez. What a bunch of morons.
“I can see where there might be a difficulty for an anatomical male to get a pap swear...”
Well, there would be about an estimated 23,000 American women or about 1,300 women in metropolitan Los Angeles who have testes, but they do not have a cervix requiring a pap smear test.
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