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WE DID IT AND THE CWHC HAS OFFICIALLY AGREED TO OUR DEMANDS FOR TRANSPARENT AND INCLUSIVE TRANSGENDER HEALTHCARE!! THIS ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE VICTORY BELONGS TO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU WHO STEPPED UP TO ENSURE EQUITY FOR ALL TRANS PEOPLE!! WE WILL BE WATCHING TO MAKE SURE EVERY WORD OF THIS …

August 24, 2012

We Need Comprehensive Transgender Health at CWHC

We Need Comprehensive Transgender Health at CWHC

🏆 Won — 251 supporters Verified

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Started by Anonymous 14 years, 4 months ago
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.

Updates

Reached 250 supporters

July 4, 2012

July 2, 2012

WE ARE BLASTING TOWARD THAT 250 SIGNATURE MILESTONE AND THE ENERGY IS ABSOLUTELY ELECTRIC!! BLAST THIS LINK TO YOUR ENTIRE NETWORK RIGHT NOW SO WE CAN SMASH THROUGH THIS GOAL AND DEMAND REAL ACCOUNTABILITY!!

June 2, 2012

THE STORIES I AM HEARING FROM THIS COMMUNITY ARE POSITIVELY POWERFUL!! WE ARE BUILDING SO MUCH MOMENTUM BEHIND THE SCENES TO DEMAND THE ACCOUNTABILITY WE ALL DESERVE!! GET READY BECAUSE WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED ON THIS MISSION!!

Reached 100 supporters

April 5, 2012

6 Comments

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Elena Gallagher
14 years ago Featured

Been waiting for someone to actually say this. CWHC needs to do better than just helping trans guys. We deserve care too.

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Jamie Wade
14 years ago Featured

do better. simple as that.

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Marcus Hale
14 years ago Featured

bout time this was called out. total hypocrisy to claim you support trans health while leaving out half the community.

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Sarah Ramos
14 years ago Featured

its 2016. why is this even a question? inclusion should have been the standard from day one.

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Taylor Park
14 years ago Featured

Fix the website. Stop erasing people. Its not hard to be inclusive if you actually care about women's health like you say you do.

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Alex Nash
14 years ago Featured

Unbelievable that this still needs explaining. Trans women exist. We need doctors who actually know what they are doing and dont treat us like an afterthought.