Health care for trans people has improved in the past two decades but progress has stagnated even as demand has risen.
The capacity problems at Centretown are indicative of a provincial crisis: transgender people — especially youth —need access to evidence-based and medically necessary gender-affirming health care but meet only barrier after barrier.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
; to chronically underfunded gender-affirming care clinics; to family doctors hesitant to provide services to trans people due to stigma and ignorance.Article content I can’t help but reflect that if any other type of health care — cancer treatment, mental-health interventions, diabetes care — were in the same state as trans health-care is now, with horrendous wait lists, barriers to care and lack of access in rural communities, it would be widely recognized as a source of provincial shame and identified as the crisis that it is.
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