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New site I just became aware of.
Trans Care BC
Main Transgender Health Information Program site.
THIP PROGRAM
If you're like me and you live outside of the GVRD then you may not know that you can visit a doctor in vancouver via "Telepresence" at your local health authority or hospital.
We need to make these people aware of the cost and inconvenience of driving all the way to vancouver when we can go to our local hospitals and GPs for tests that need to be performed and for the rest we can go to an office at a hospital and sit in front of a video camera and microphone and talk to these doctors.
I spoke with Stacy at Transcare BC and she told me that doctors like Endocrinologists were available by telepresence.
I spoke to my two psychologists for my final SRS approval by telepresence. It was painless. They had all my records and getting approved was just a formality.
Please take time to write to the email above. Make them aware that you aren't in the GVRD and want services where you are.
Thanks,
Dayna.
I'm going to try to attach an application for a speech therapy program. We need as many people as we can to apply to encourage them to have a telepresence session.
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I applied to the Changing
I applied to the Changing Keys course a while ago and I'm looking forward to going there in the spring.
Hugs from British Columbia! :D
I hope
you enjoy it as much as I did.
just remember, you get out of it what you put into it, practice is needed even after you finish the program.
Stupidity is a capital offense. A summary not indictable.
Misread the Subject
Sorry -- this is probably egregious for this site, but I misread the Subject heading. I thought it referred to something like transportation resources exploding (literally). As in, a major accident occurred.
-- Daphne Xu
Canada seems to get a lot of
Canada seems to get a lot of things right these days. A pity that my government still lives in "Neuland" when it comes to everything internet related...
The voice training looks really intriguing, but I don't qualify for that. I still hope you get enough people to make it happen. Wish you luck.
Change but still no change
I am an American by birth but I am the only one for 3 generations who was born in the USA. My siblings, parents and all my grandparents were born in Canada. By Canadian immigration law, I qualify for my citizenship. For so many years I have given it a passing thought but it was just so much hassle. Well with the way this country is changing, not for the good in the treatment of trans persons, I have decided to apply for a citizenship search with the CIC. Well, the whole thing once they start to actually process the application and do the search is supposed to be 10 months. They began the search 12 May 2016. When I called them for something unrelated, they inform me that my case has been moved to some other division and will take a minimum of 24 months now. Hmmmmm! it does make me wonder, is there some sort of hidden agenda or discrimination, no matter what the tolerances and laws regarding trans persons are in Canada. It is not like it is too hard to figure out history on my family. They have my mother's birth certificate and my father was sitting speaker of the House of Parliment for BC for 6 years, look it up on Wiki. I thing I smell a rat in the woodpile here. I don't come to Canada to get treatment either, I am done with my transition, besides they never even asked. I wrote to the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau and got a reply that it would be investigated by Honourable John McCallum, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship office so we'll just see. I don't want to hold my breath for fear of suffocation but I hold out hope.
It sounds impressive that these options are available to the community though and I think it is awesome for my fellow citizens. Here's wishing each and every one of you the best and continued great treatment.
Dahlia
changing keys was fun
and very helpful.
once a week for 6 weeks.
Sheilagh, the person doing the program, has been teaching others how to do it with the hope that it can be offered more widely. ( we had 2 people sitting in to learn how it goes when I did the program a year ago )
part is funding, but part also is the lack of specific training on the issue for speech therapists. ask your gp for a referral to a local speech therapist and ask them for help in the vocal retraining, that makes the local speech therapist(s) aware of the need and increases the chances of the program expanding it's coverage.
Transhealth BC, Changing keys and trans care are all run out of the same office in 3 Bridges community health centre at Drake and Hornby streets. ( 2 blocks from where I lived and worked for 5 years :p )
Stupidity is a capital offense. A summary not indictable.