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transI'm working on health-related activities at SCC, and I'm hoping for some feedback with respect to its current offerings and current shortcomings.
At the Southern Comfort Conference, there are currently two kinds of health-related activities. One is free HIV screening, provided by NAESM and Fulton County's Health Dept, and is open to anyone. The other is the Robert Eads Health Project, which is currently only open to "trans men, men of trans experience, and those on the transmasculine spectrum." REHP provides transportation to a local clinic (that has experience and training wrt trans guys) and pays for participants to have a pelvic exam, including HPV test. The visit includes time to talk to a nurse practitioner so you can work out issues with hormones, get a chest exam, and deal with general health issues. Bloodwork and other testing (STIs etc) are available on sliding scales. The obvious gap here is healthcare for (trans) women beyond oral swab HIV testing.
So, here's my question. If you're planning to go to SCC, would you attend a health project that was trans-friendly and paid for (in part or in full) during SCC? Would you still go to the project if you could only get health care that wasn't specific to transition (e.g. if you could deal with general health issues, blood sugar, mental health, cholesterol, etc, but you couldn't deal with beginning or following up with HRT)? If you're not planning to go to SCC, would having such a health project be a reason for you to go? If you would, what other barriers would there be to attending? (cost of registration, housing, transportation, documentation issues, etc)
Please feel free to post this elsewhere and direct message me and/or comment with thoughts.
At the Southern Comfort Conference, there are currently two kinds of health-related activities. One is free HIV screening, provided by NAESM and Fulton County's Health Dept, and is open to anyone. The other is the Robert Eads Health Project, which is currently only open to "trans men, men of trans experience, and those on the transmasculine spectrum." REHP provides transportation to a local clinic (that has experience and training wrt trans guys) and pays for participants to have a pelvic exam, including HPV test. The visit includes time to talk to a nurse practitioner so you can work out issues with hormones, get a chest exam, and deal with general health issues. Bloodwork and other testing (STIs etc) are available on sliding scales. The obvious gap here is healthcare for (trans) women beyond oral swab HIV testing.
So, here's my question. If you're planning to go to SCC, would you attend a health project that was trans-friendly and paid for (in part or in full) during SCC? Would you still go to the project if you could only get health care that wasn't specific to transition (e.g. if you could deal with general health issues, blood sugar, mental health, cholesterol, etc, but you couldn't deal with beginning or following up with HRT)? If you're not planning to go to SCC, would having such a health project be a reason for you to go? If you would, what other barriers would there be to attending? (cost of registration, housing, transportation, documentation issues, etc)
Please feel free to post this elsewhere and direct message me and/or comment with thoughts.