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The Boston Medical Center Hospital just announced ( 5/18/16) that they will be joining a small group of US hospitals offering Gender Reassignment Surgery for both M to F and F to M. The hospital has long provided hormone therapy and mental health services, but due
to a growing demand,and slowly changing insurance coverage, it was decided to provide the surgical procedures. The BMC said it already
has a waiting list of over 100 patients to be evaluated for surgery.
This is good news for patients in the New England area.
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Cue up the ignorant
Cue up the ignorant complaints that it's using public money to provide services for transgender people...even though it hasn't been a public hospital for 20 years.
Hopefully the other other hospital groups will follow suit in the future to help offer services beyond the city itself. New England may be small in area compared with the rest of the country but it's still a drain on patients to have to go all the way to the heart of Boston for the surgery.
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
Some cautions on GRS
Times are changing and I am thankful for that. For lots of us who had it done in the past, it has been a really tough time, with really cruel consequences socially, though they do vary. Mine was just awful, yet I know of others whose families have been supportive. Because of my own nutter, condemning, Christian background I have had an extremely difficult time giving myself permission to have a romantic relationship with a man; most of that being driven by my own mores.
I think that those with the best chances begin treatment very early in life, before puberty if possible. I will write only about MtF trans folk because that is what I know. Hopefully in early treatment, the blockers and estrogens will limit a person's size to within the female norm. I doubt that this early treatment will lead to female pelvic proportions, but in a generation or two who knows. Being 69, I have seen astonishing things develop in medicine.
GRS won't solve all your problems, and as a woman for now you can expect to earn less and have fewer opportunities than a man.
My best to those who choose this route, though you should expect sacrifice and pain along the way.
Gwen
Gwen, I've read a couple of
Gwen, I've read a couple of places that if estrogen therapy is started by age 20, then the pelvis may widen, half way between male and female width.
Operative word is 'may'.
Karen
No change in pelvis
after ossification occurs which is usually by about 20 in females and 23 in males.
So when you getting the op, Karen?
Angharad ;)
Angharad
Ever see a shaved gorilla
Ever see a shaved gorilla wearing lipstick
Karen ;-)
Insurance and Transition care in MA
It has been law in MA since June of 2013 that health insurance by Employers provide FULL transition care for Transgender Employees. :) I have been impatiently waiting for the day when I stop being a Temp-to-hire Employee at Smith & Wesson and become a full-time Employee of S&W here in Springfield MA (actually I am in Belchertown :) ). So, this news becomes even more welcome for me as I now have a LOCAL Hospital system to apply for GRS when I get the go ahead. :)
Can you do a Johnnie Cash
Can you do a Johnnie Cash with that new .22 auto? 8-))
You know, 'one little piece at a time.' His Cadillac.
Karen
Boston Globe BMC Gender Surgery Article
Here's the article from the Boston Globe published on May 18. BMC to offer gender reassignment surgery
Michelle B
That cost estimate seems
That cost estimate seems consistent for GRS, no mention of the cost of the feminizing surgery, or breast enhancement surgery.
Karen