How gender-affirming care may be impacted when clinics that offer abortions close

Lt Col Charlie Brown
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Talk to your primary care physician.

--- It's not that simple but of course you don't understand nor do you care to understand. Did they pick you yet? Just wondering.

To Lt. Col Charlie Brown response ones PCP is totally lacking in the standards of care for their Trans patients plus there us a great hostility from a lot of medical providers.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Even in states where abortions are outlawed, clinics are fighting to provide gender-affirming care
In areas where gender-affirming care is few and far between, clinics like Planned Parenthood are often the only place where transgender and nonbinary people access any kind of health care, said Kumar, who is in the Gulf Coast.

“When that’s taken away, they’re left sometimes with no options,” he added.

So far, no Planned Parenthood clinics have closed since the Supreme Court’s decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade. Even in states imposing abortion bans, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood’s national organization told NPR their clinics are determined to stay open to continue offering services like gender-affirming care.

In that vein, the Planned Parenthood health clinic in Knoxville, Tenn., is planning to rebuild its office as well as launch a mobile health unit in the fall to keep providing support. That’s despite the state planning to ban all abortion at the end of August.

“Everyone who knows us in Knoxville isn’t surprised that we’re reopening whether abortion is banned or not because they count on us for so many other services,” Coffield said.

Independent providers, who tend to more financially rely on abortion services, are also fighting to keep their doors open.

In West Virginia, the Women’s Health Center recently expanded its services to provide hormone replacement therapy– even as it might lose nearly half of its revenue if lawmakers enact an abortion ban, the clinic’s executive director told NPR.

“We believe in patient-centered health care that honors autonomy and dignity of our clients. Expanding our service array to include gender-affirming hormone therapy is completely in line with that vision,” Katie Quinonez said.

“No matter what happens to legal abortion in our state, we will continue doing everything in our power to expand and meet the health care needs in our community.”