Ask a trans person!

[The Oopster]

Originally Posted by Linus

Anyone here going to the LA LGTQ Center's Trans health group/center? I just contacted them about getting an appointment (I'll admit to being nervous about trying to educate a "regular" family physician on this stuff in Redondo) and got told it's a 4 month wait!!?!

Sigh.

Someone explain to me again how this is an improvement on the Canadian system (wait time for new appointments is usually a month or two at most).

For those that don't use doctors that aren't necessarily trans specialists, what challenges do you face? How much do you educate them? I'd really prefer to have a doctor in Redondo Beach but I'll admit I'm worried about what I'll face by using a local doc who isn't necessarily trans-aware in general.

There is a dr at cedars that sees trans patients ... i can get you his info if you want. I go to a urologist that does hormone treatment for ftms and mtfs. I really like the guy. He is just west of downtown on wilshire. He will let me get my blood work done from my other drs so that my insurance covers it .... then I just have to pay like $90 out of pocket for a yearly visit. I was fortuntate to not have to pay for the original consultation because i needed a urologist and so the insurance covered that part. If you want his info i can get it to you also .... get this the last time I went to him to have my urine check ... no charge .. didn't even put it through insurance.

I've been pretty lucky with my drs here in la. Others haven't had as good of luck and they went to drs in west hollywood so go figure. I could have just gotten stuff through my regular physician who has dealt with hormones but not for transitional purposes but consdering i've had other health problems I definitely wanted someone who had experience with it.

My obgyn ... i was nervous about and ended up he did his residency in san francisco and although he personally didn't have any transgender patients they had them at the clinic he was at, so you just never no.