involved in that. a final question for you you are the first openly trans woman to be conferred by the senate. how has your story informed your role? well, i was so proud and honoured to be the first and so my goal is i don t want to be the last. and so what i want to do in my public health capacity is to really work for health equity for all communities and health equity including the lgbtqi+ community. thank you so much forjoining us on our show, admiral. my pleasure. it was great to be here. we just heard admiral levine talk a little bit about healthcare in the trans community. at least 30 leading professional medical associations have issued statements supporting care for transgender people and youth. but americans have mixed views on how to handle transition healthcare for transgender youth. according to a pew research centre poll last year, about 46% of us adults would favour making it illegal for healthcare professionals to provide youth with gender transition care. when it co
requiring health care insurance companies to cover transition medical care, 44% of adults oppose doing that, while 27 percent of adults would favour covering this form of medical care. we heard admiral levine mention wpath, the world professional association for transgender health. for the medical perspective, i spoke earlier to the president of wpath, dr marci bowers, a gynaecologist and surgeon who specializes in gender affirmation surgeries. doctor bowers, great to have you on the programme. what are the steps to providing gender affirming care responsibly? irate affirming care responsibly? we all want affirming care responsibly? - all want what is best for our children and that means whether they are in childhood or adolescence or adulthood. they are still our children. and when a child presents as a gender diverse the important
healthcare insurance companies to cover transitional medical care, 44% of adults oppose doing that, while 27% of adults would favour covering this form of medical care. we heard admiral levine mention wpath, the world professional assocation for transgender health. for the medical perspective, i spoke to the president of wpath, dr marci bowers, a gynaecologist and surgeon who specialises in gender affirmation surgeries. great to have you on the programme. what are the steps to providing gender affirming care responsibly? to providing gender affirming care responsibly? assuming we all want what care responsibly? assuming we all want what is care responsibly? assuming we all want what is best care responsibly? assuming we all want what is best for - care responsibly? assuming we all want what is best for our - all want what is best for our children, and that means, whether they are in childhood or adolescence, whether they are in childhood oradolescence, or whether they are in chi
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