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Doctors (transgender-specific)

I've got the usual assortment of transgendered friends. I'm wondering: Does anyone know of any doctors who specialize in the care of transgendered people? For example, gynecologists specializing in ftm men, or prostate specialists for mtf women?

Finding that sort of doctor can be really hard already if you're one definite gender with the standard set of plumbing. I'd imagine that it gets more difficult if one is nonstandard.

Does anyone know of any resources on finding that sort of doctor?

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I could imagine, though I don't know for sure, that the prostate is one of those things that are removed at surgery.

Almost all parts of, well, not the plumping per se, but the assorted bits, are hormone sensitive, and could give all sorts of trouble for someone who has to take a huge dose of the sex hormones they naturally produce less of. (Damn, that is one huge sentence.)

Heh.

Most specifically, there are a number of people who are on hormones, but have not yet had any operations, so they're operating as one gender with most of the bits for the other. A woman having trouble with her man-bits when she's looking to get rid of them may well be mortified to be having such problems, and an insensitive doctor is the last thing she'd need.

That, too.

Not only transgendered have that problem.

A friend of mine, very lesbian, was seeing a gynecologist (or a midwife; they handle pretty much of everyday women's stuff here), and she asked what contraceptives my friend used. She said "None..." and didn't have the time to continue with "...I'm a lesbian." before the woman ranted for fortyfive minutes about the dangers of unprotected sex. (My friend is a very good talker, but none the less, she didn't get a word in all that time.)

That, and the incident I read about when a guy died from colonic rupture after fistfucking when the doctor didn't believe him, is why I make sure to understand as much as possible about all kinds of sex.

Oh, my. Yeah, I see how having a doctor who won't assume orientation is definitely an asset.

Even though I'm bisexual, I'm still assuming heterosexuality.

However, I'm doing my very best just to note in passing when someone tells me otherwise (or when there's an earlier record of such a telling), or to ask when something weird-in-heterosexual-monogamous-context comes up, such as the aforementioned lack of contraceptives. (For all I know, someone could be celibate for whatever reasons, or sterilized, or heavily into non-penis-in-vagina sex, besides being homosexual.)

*shudder* I would never go back to any sort of medical person who ranted at me for forty-five minutes, even if I had just told them that I regularly gargled prussic acid.

This (http://www.tg2tg.org/resources/directory.htm) may help. I wish your friends luck. They have a complex and difficult problem to deal with.

Thanks!

There may be doctors like that out there, but there seems to be a sorry lack of them. Ahh... I can't remember where I saw the news article/memorial, but there was an FtM who actually *died* because he couldn't find any doctors that would treat him because he still had a uterus. I think ovarian cysts had happened, or some nasty thing like that. A google search could probably turn it up, but I'm not up for that right now.

Ovarian cysts are uncomfortable, but not malign. Ovarian cancer, OTOH...

Ugh. "That would royally suck" is an understatement. A way way understatement.

There's this (http://www.thetransitionalmale.com/resourceindex) for FTMs.

And, I'd post a request for state-specific info on

transgender. There's usually someone who can make a recommendation.

Thanks!

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