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We Need Comprehensive Transgender Health at CWHC

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To the Chicago Women’s Health Center: We demand the following things: 1. A statement of apology taking responsibility and accountability for the historical exclusion of transgender women, transfeminine, and trans female people from your health services. This statement should explain why this “women’s” health center chose to prioritize services to transgender men, transmasculine, and trans male people over transfeminine-identified people. This statement should be readily accessed from the CWHC website. 2. Rewriting each line of “women’s” to be “cisgender women’s” where intended and/or applicable on the CWHC website. 3. A comprehensive plan to include services for transgender women that includes public and transparent benchmarks that may be easily accessed from the CWHC website. Those services include: a. Feminizing Hormone Replacement Therapy b. Trans prostate examination c. Fertility awareness and/or options for trans female people d. Continual education on the particularities of trans female-spectrum health issues Failure to comply with and/or address such a comprehensive plan will result in the changing of the name of Trans Greater Health Project into Transmasculine Greater Health Project. Furthermore, we encourage more community development and ties among the transgender women’s, transfeminine, and trans female community. Employing transfeminine-spectrum people to your staff would be encouraged. Lastly, we encourage anyone supporting the CWHC and/or the Trans Greater Health Project to unabashedly, critically, and courageously point out the disparities between their transgender health services at the current state it is in.

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