Try getting any significant specialized health care. Or any specialized health care these days.
5 years on, now in a different city, I am still waiting for cmha to call back. They did say the wait time for the particular program (DBT) was a year or two, but my goodness.
And then we have premieres slaughtering the health care system to sell off piece meal.
It doesn’t look promising…
If I mention that my wait time for specialized care was 2 months, do we then get to split the “well that’s not the specialized or care I meant” hairs, or can we decide that outliers can still exist even if the average were to be improving?
As to premiers killing access to healthcare, I think when that’s in the most important set of issues for us then we should vote accordingly and ensure in our regular letters to our MPs that they understand why we’ll be voting so.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But experts and advocates say a lack of local access to such care and the country’s current political landscape around the topic puts trans and non-binary youth at risk of mental health challenges, including suicide.
The need for improved access to gender-affirming health care for trans or non-binary teens has become even more pressing given the political climate of the country, said Helen Kennedy, the executive director of Egale Canada, a LGBTQ research and advocacy group.
Kennedy said research has shown that trans and non-binary youth are at a much higher risk of suicide than their peers, and that having support from family and community can significantly improve health outcomes.
Unable to find gender-affirming care closer to home, many of Dr. James Makokis’s patients travel long distances from across Alberta and even other provinces to attend appointments at his Edmonton clinic.
Otteson, who has worked with transgender patients for 13 years, says a big part of her practice is providing support, a place for trans adults and youth to talk through the process of coming out, and referrals so they can access gender-affirming medical care.
Because the process Crow went through was so long and difficult, his mom gets frustrated when she hears what she believes are unfounded comments about gender-affirming health care or hormone therapy being offered to kids and teens too quickly.
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