Doctors Pulling Out, It’s Happening Now.

I live in Florida. I’m low-income with no insurance, so I go to a sliding-scale clinic for my meds as well as everything else. I’ve been using this clinic for 6 years now.

Just spoke with my NP today, and she warned they will soon be discontinuing serving the trans community. She says it’s because it’s “not within their scope” as a family practice, but we all know why this is.

Florida is a Republican state with all sorts of anti-trans laws on the books. Trump’s pulling funding left and right from anywhere he doesn’t think “deserves” it, and I guarantee that the heads of people in my situation are already on the chopping blocks.

I don’t know what anyone can do, right now, to prepare for this, I just wanted to let everyone know that if it hasn’t happened yet, it’s coming. Doctors are going to start refusing to treat us, just like they did 20+ years ago. Back then, I had to travel 4 hours (one way, 8 hours total) to see a gay doctor in Atlanta, GA willing to treat trans patients. He misgendered me constantly, made jokes about how I’d never have a dick or satisfy my wife, and required seeing my top surgery scars before he’d prescribe to me. And I accepted it because I had no other options.

This is what we’re headed back to, my dudes. Gird your loins.