An East Harlem, N.Y., clinic dedicated to the needs of transgender individuals will expand its services to that community, the city announced this week.
Harlem Patch reports that the uptown branch of Metropolitan Hospital’s LGBT Health Center will now offer gender-affirming “top surgeries” and access to hormone therapy for transgender patients.
Patients referred by their primary care physician for breast augmentations, breast implants or chest masculinization surgery will be able to now have the work done at the clinic which opened in 2014 to specifically serve the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults.
The clinic is the only center within the city’s public health system to offer gender-affirming surgeries.
Not does the clinic treat its patients with respect and culturally sensitive healthcare, but because the public hospital accepts most health insurances, it may be the most affordable option for a trans community which is four times more likely to live in poverty.
Source: The Root | ANGELA BRONNER HELM
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