Gender care supports transgender people

In the midst of an avalanche of legislative challenges to the care affirmed by the sexes, the care of Amida and the transversitive national march double their commitment to build transgender people. Amida Care is a Medicaid plan in New York specializing in the treatment of HIV and affirmative care. It serves more than 3,300 transgender and non -binary people.

They have a team of gender identity support (GIST) which helps individuals get the help they need to live the happiest life as possible.

A 2013 article in Lancet’s infectious diseases indicated that “transgender women (male to women, MTF) are internationally recognized as a population group that carries a disproportionate burden of HIV infection.”

The American Center for Disease Control and Prevention has published data indicating that “African-American peoples are affected disproportionately by HIV, which represents 12% of the population, but representing 42% (12827) of the 30,635 new HIV diagnoses in the United States.”

They help people confronted with some health problems and obstacles to treatment outside HIV. Their work is essential because, according to a 2016 article in the current opinion of endocrinology, diabetes and obesity, “transgender people suffer from important health disparities in several arenas. Real or perceived stigmatization and discrimination within biomedicine and the provision of health care, in general, can have an impact on the desire and capacity of transgender people. ” The same article said that “some of these obstacles to health care are faced with other minority groups, many are unique and many are considerably amplified for transgender people.” Carey Hanlin, assistant director of the health and HIV transgender prevention program, and Jessica Zyrie, Health and HIV coordinator of TGNB of the Assistance Team of Amaida Care, have shared details on how Amida performs plans to support the transgender community with black health issues.

“We understand that each person’s transition and health objectives are different and that the GIST team works with members to identify their needs, examine their options and connect them to assert care and services,” said Hanlin. “Our objective has always been to develop a program that specifically meets the needs and concerns of this community” and to “build a network of organizations of providers and community, where our members can obtain the care and support they need without ill -treatment and stigma that they often experience in the field of health care”.

“We encounter many obstacles to medical care and mental health, which we must be healthy. This is why supporting access to care is so important, “said Zyrie.

“Almost a third of trans people in question in the United States have avoided seeing a doctor because they could not afford it or had access to health insurance, almost a quarter did not see a doctor for fear of ill-treatment and almost half said that they would have negative experience with a health care provider linked to their gender identity in the past year.

Visibility in intimate environments, such as healthcare visits, can be an invaluable statement to someone in their mental and physical health.

Zyrie explained what transforms the people with whom she works to find care. “Unfortunately, we work with many members who expect ill-treatment from the start,” she said.

Hanlin explained: “Not only do our members benefit from life and sex saving lives, but they also see their primary care provider. They receive essential cancer screening, they see mental health providers. ”

“All these things can be almost impossible in the face of discrimination and stigma,” he added.

Sex care is not just about syringes and pills. It is a question of respecting all aspects of the gender identity of a patient when they treat them for anything of an onion to hormone therapy.

“We see their humanity and by working, with our cultural sensitivity, our network sensitive to the control of suppliers and staff. We make sure that each member saves the care they need and deserve, “said Zyrie.

An article of 2024 in BMC Health Services Research said that “transgender people have expressed their need to access health services for general health needs, including, but without limiting themselves, mental health, non -transmitted diseases and infectious diseases.”

Hope Giselle Godsey, Director General, CEO and President of the National Trans Visibility March, in an interview with Black Health Matters, editorial director Corynne L. Cory, said that there was a need for wider and well-balanced conversations that include personal abstinence, personal care and self-assurance in trans and queer communities. “So, you don’t have to feel that your sex life is one or the other, where it is super existing but seems risky, or where it is nonexistent and you lack pleasure.”

Godsey has also strengthened the importance of diversity in the approaches to care affirming the genre: “I think that not enough people have conversations on how we are talking about our health, apart from our genitals, or, you know what surgery you may or may not have or how you have sex,” she said. “There are so many health disparities that we are going through at the medical level.”

The Executive Director, the CEO and the President of the National Trans Visibility March rejected the hypotheses that transgender people do not need intervention and support for questions that do not meet with their gender. “People often do not think that we are galvanized in the same way that we are galvanized around our identity or our gender expression,” said Godsey.

The face of holistic health in public forums does not always include transgender people. Godsey highlighted the need for more “conversations on our holistic health” within the community and explained how plant -based medicine appears in the community.

“People are now starting to create their own version of the hormone therapy replaced by natural herbs, through juice, being able to know where you can find estrogen replacements and testosterone through natural roots and herbs and things that, things that do not affect your body in a negative way or that have so many ridiculous side effects as some of them as well as pills give, ”said God. “I think you can talk about it and talk about it will be interesting for many people.”