two days before i got word that the clinic was in danger of closing, i got a call from one of our participants. she had received a hormone prescription from us, but as a condition of healthy san francisco to have for coverage, it needed to be written by her medical provider. she was being told that there would not have an appointment open for her and another two months. the public health system is already stretched thin. if we are thrown back into the system, how can that fragile network picked us up? how can the clinics to pick us up continue to provide competent care with the added burden? for that reason i m asking for your support, thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you very much. next speaker, please? good evening, my name is james award. i am a current patient of lyon- martin, and i am asking your support and keeping the doors open. before i came to lyon-martin, i had the most horrible experiences in the medical field as a trans person. i stopped saying medical ca
then there were reassigned to lyon-martin. a lot of those folks are facing losing the mental services they then have. the work on things like project health to train other doctors. i clear i fear for my clients that will not get reassigned to another clinic in a reasonable time. people are likely to not get health care at all. they face the fear of not being able to find doctors like they have at lyon-martin. i fear people will not get primary care. they may resort to st. hormones or not get the care they need. i urge you to do all you can to support lyon-martin. i am victoria grace, a concerned member of the trans gender community, and a very happy patient of the tamo delaware tom modell help center and a client of the trans thrive center. competent health care is of utmost importance. transgendered people have a lot of trouble getting culturally competent health care. i am fortunate to get the good health care i get. tom modell is at capacity and will be utterly swamp
substance use common diet, smoking cessation, and other things that lyon-martin does. there is nowhere else to refer to the young people i work with. i think the $150,000 the clinic is asking for is the minimum the city can do. i would encourage you to do as much as you can. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. thank you, supervisors. i am laura thomas. i am a former patient of lyon- martin. i access services there about 20 years ago, when i first came to san francisco as a young woman looking for health care. i am also very proud to be a part of the amazing community response that has been the save lyon-martin experience. i abort in nonprofits in the city for a long time. i have worked in nonprofits in the city for a long time. i have never seen this kind of response in crisis. i am proud to be a resident of san francisco, which has an amazing investment in ensuring that everyone in san francisco has access to health care and culturally-competent heal
i am asking for support to keep lyon-martin from two places. as a low-end, transgendered gay man, i find it difficult to receive competent medical care without simultaneously giving an education to my provider. at lyon-martin when i sought medical care, the things that make me medically interesting or not of interest to my provider. my doctors treated my body as it was, not my identity, and i got a diagnoses, treated, and i can move on with my life. transgendered people, will not always visible, are in transit part of the san francisco committee. we are your brothers, sisters, health care workers, and our health care should be a priority for the city. second, i am advocating for lyon-martin services as a health-care provider myself. i am the transgender program coordinator at the st. james infirmary and refer clients within a healthy san francisco system. two days before i got word that the clinic was in danger of closing, i got a call from one of our participants. she had re