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[o'queery]

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by dameonboy

You mean in the women's room, or you are having problems in the men's (this is a trans thread, so that why clarifying)?

[o'queery]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

You mean in the women's room, or you are having problems in the men's (this is a trans thread, so that why clarifying)?

The mens room.

Most times it is when i am out in the community that i grew up in.

Though before i had become the boy that i am i was constantly ushered out of the ladies room.

Most times I try not to really let it get to me, but today it just did.

<3

[Nadeest]

Hang in there, dameonboy. I suspect that I would have had that problem, had I lived in one place, all of my life, and also transitioned there. I moved to Texas, from Michigan, during the early part of my transition, and then, just recently, moved to Florida. The only person, here, that knew me as a male, is my mother, and she accepts me as her daughter, now. Few here realize that I have transitioned, unless I tell them.

[Nadeest]

I'm not sure if this fits under this thread or not, but I do find it interesting, and worthy of support. I know several, if not all of the authors of this book. http://www.curvemag.com/Curve-Magazi...Book/index.php

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by Nadeest

I'm not sure if this fits under this thread or not, but I do find it interesting, and worthy of support. I know several, if not all of the authors of this book. http://www.curvemag.com/Curve-Magazi...Book/index.php

I preordered this book two weeks ago. Looking forward to it!

[Yew]

I don't get static in men's rooms, but I do feel a little gut-knot going into one I am unfamiliar with. Many of my last visits to a women's room were met with double takes, weird looks etc, some women even leaving, then immediately returning and either embarrassed or hostile, informing me of the exact words on your sign...this was a continual sign that I should be in the Men's.

A couple of days ago I was going into what I thought was a general/unisex dressing room (it has always been free flowing and located between the mens and women's departments) with some two piece suits and was met at the door by a female employee who informed me "this is the women's dressing room" and blocked my entrance. I asked where the men's was and after finding it, made several trips in and out with zero problems. I guess sometimes I think the marker that is still on my ID actually means something, but this is a case of what you see is what you get, and people see me as a guy. The weird and shitty occasion where someone "she's" me can undermine my process a little and I think, Do I Really Pass As Well As I Think I Do?...mostly, yes I do, and so I have to stay true to what is inside- a guy. Sometimes stuff is just super weird. The most static I have gotten going into a men's room was in Pamplona, Spain and it was women waiting in line for the women's room who nailed me coming and going; this was pre-transition but I was still not feminine, and I suspect something about this aggression was about me being in there with 'their men", not cool at all.

Originally Posted by dameonboy

[LeftWriteFemme]

State Requiring Health Insurers To Cover Gender Transition


http://www.courant.com/news/politics...,1545137.story

[Rockinonahigh]

Originally Posted by LeftWriteFemme

State Requiring Health Insurers To Cover Gender Transition


http://www.courant.com/news/politics...,1545137.story

I wonder if this means medicare /medicaid would have to follow the same rules???

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by Rockinonahigh

I wonder if this means medicare /medicaid would have to follow the same rules???

Medicaid is a state plan so I would suspect they would. Medicare is federal, so it would not be the case for them.

[Kenna]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

Medicaid is a state plan so I would suspect they would. Medicare is federal, so it would not be the case for them.

Unfortunately, Dapper, I feel the need to disagree. The Medicaid Policy Writer, Medicaid Legislative Analyst and Program Manager side of me wants to help out in this situation ....Medicaid and Medicare are both Federal. The Feds (through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -CMS) tell the states what they can and cannot do with Medicaid policy and particular programs. When the Feds make a policy change, they publish it in the Federal Register...the states review the change and have the right to "comment" using the instructions published in the Register. .. There are two different ways that the Feds can direct the states to handle coverage: As a mandated item to add to the "State Medicaid Plan" or as an optional item that the state can decide if they want to cover it or not....THEN there's also the possibility of a "State Waiver" where a state can apply to CMS (the feds) for approval to cover something that's not written in "The State Plan" ...

My suggestion is for any advocate of gender reassignment surgery to be added to MEDICAID or MEDICARE, please write in hard copy to the management of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in D.C...and also the Secretary of the federal Health and Human Services....in pleading any case for mandating coverage, it must be documented as "medically necessary".

Yes, there are Medicaid programs and services that are funded with Federal money and Medicaid programs/services/Waivers that are funded by state budget money. But the policy is driven from the feds down to the states...
if a procedure is currently NOT covered by Medicaid there are.certain legislative contacts to push it through.

I remember recently when dental care for adults has been drastically restricted because the feds and states reduced their budgets for items they decided to remove from the State Plans....
My worry is that even if Medical Necessity is proven for this surgery, several people at the federal or state level (ie. those against LGBTQ rights) will block any additions to the Medicaid or Medicare budget and policy.

[Nadeest]

Yay! Now if we can get the rest of the states to do so!

[Nadeest]

Yet another attack on transgender people. Worse, the newspaper is claiming that they don't have a responsibility to check the facts, before they publish an article. http://www.transadvocate.com/toronto...ms-no-duty.htm

Note: Here is the original article, that Cristan Williams critisized.: http://www.thestar.com/life/2014/01/...allinger.html#