TG night

Tuesday nights is Transgender night at Tom Waddell. This clinic has been around for over 15 years and has quite the history. It is one of the first clinics to provide TG-specific primary care and specifically focus on low-income and homeless populations. Many of our patients have fully transitioned from either male to female or female to male and simply receive basic primary care services; others are in the process of transitioning and are on different regiments of hormone therapy; some people are pre-sex operation others are post-sex operation; some patients identify as gay others as straight, others as gender fluid (sexual orientation is very different then someones gender identity).

A focus of this clinic, and really my job, is to be "culturally" sensitive, or simply, respectful of a person's gender identity. Many patients have names, other then their legal name, that they prefer to go by. It is important to use proper pronouns when talking about patients, whether it be with them or with their provider. Respect for this identity is a core value of the clinic.