Doctors

[Guest Sakura_Stingray]

I pln on bypassing therepy cause of its cost for now and going straight to endo or gynacologists to get started.. what i wana know is do i have to see a normal doctor and get a referal to an endocronologist or can i just go straight to an endocronologist to start on hrt? im thinking of ways to save money so give me a break XD

[Sally]

The only referral that you need to go to an Endo and start hormones is from your therapist.

The Endo will order their own blood work and make all analysis of your health and start your HRT for your blood chemistry, it is a highly specialized field and they do not need to have another doctor's opinion because they have a great deal more training in reading the blood work.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest qRachelp]

I pln on bypassing therepy cause of its cost for now and going straight to endo or gynacologists to get started.. what i wana know is do i have to see a normal doctor and get a referal to an endocronologist or can i just go straight to an endocronologist to start on hrt? im thinking of ways to save money so give me a break XD

Sakura Stingray,

What I did, just this last Tuesday, was find the "Transsexual-friendly" therapists in my area, and emailed them with info on my situation, age, commitment to becoming female, awareness of the changes that occur, and my NEED to begin now because of my advancing age. I also said that I would like him to be my therapists if he would accept me, and at the end of the email, I asked him to recommend and endocrinologist so I could get hormones started.

Now keep in mind that you HAVE to go to a transgender-friendly therapist to be able to "cut corners".

Anyway, he made an appointment for me, and it costed me $100. I showed up with my long hair in a feminine fashion, with clothes on that were gender neutral, but they looked more female. With the knowledge that I carried with me, my feminine demeanor, and my lifelong history of desperately needing to be a girl, within thirty minutes he was giving me the phone number of his contact, a "general physician", NOT an endocrinologist (he said that it's a myth that you HAVE to go see one of those - he also said that the ONLY hard and fast rule left from the HIBIGDA standards is the "real life experience" for 12 months before you can have SRS, but you have to have a phD. person and another psyche type worker's signatures - so two signatures in all - signing off on a letter allowing you to have SRS. So if you want SRS in the future, you need to see a Transsexual-friendly therapist once/month for the twelve month period that go WOMAN 24/7), to have my blood-work done to clear my way for hormone treatment. And I had my appointment to get my blood work done, which is less than two weeks from now, two days later on Thursday afternoon.

So in essence, I think you should probably contact a Transsexual-friendly therapist to help you "cut corners". Most other therapist are just too naive about transsexualism to do anything else but go by what an OLD book tells them.

This link: http://www.lauras-playground.com/gender_therapists.htm has the below list of Transsexual-friendly therapists in Texas, and everywhere else in the USA.

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Rachel

Texas

Terry Stewart, LCSW

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, TX.

Phone : (817) 239-0463

Eric Avery, M.D.

University of Texas Medical Branch

301 University Boulevard, Rt 0186

Galveston, TX. 77555-0428

Phone : (409) 772-3475

Dr. Carpenter, D.O.

Dr. Michael Noss, D.O.

Denise Morris Executive Director

Offering complete, cost-effective service for the gender community. Serving gender dysphoric people, TVs, TSs, and the gender curious.

Services include: Psychiatric evaluation, Gender Dysphoria counseling, endocrine treatment (hormones), individual and family counseling, pre- and post-op physical exams, full medical treatment, complete laboratory services, surgical referrals & legal liaisons.

Collier M. Cole, Ph.D.

The Rosenberg Clinic

1103 Rosenberg Avenue

Galveston, TX. 77550

Phone : (409) 763-0016

Gender Center Of The Southwest

Transitions Medical and Counseling Associates

3626 Nort Hall Street, Suite 623

Dallas, TX. 75205

Phone : (214) 528-8901

Fax : (214) 528-8902

Carson Rader, Ph.D.

901 Nueces Street

Austin, TX.

Phone : (512) 705-8556

Email : [email protected]

Website : http://www.jillrader.com

Feminist therapist with expertise in issues related to gender and sexuality. Weekend hours and sliding scale fees available. "Given the growing need for gender specialists and the lack of resources for Texas residents in the more remote areas, I am now offering phone and online therapy sessions for non-local clients. My approach to therapy: My theoretical orientation is a blending of a number of approaches, including feminist, humanist, gestalt, cognitive-behavioral, narrative, and psychodynamic. I view my work with clients as a collaborative process that empowers them rather than one that fosters their dependency upon me. I also situate client difficulties within their sociocultural context, which means that I attend to such factors as sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, classism and other societal forces that contribute to human suffering."

Sarah Janosik, LCSW, ACP

Austin Center for Sexual Medicine

1101 South Capital of Texas Hwy

Building A, #200

Austin, TX. 78746

Phone : (512) 327-3723

Fax : (512) 329-5522

Charles W. Keller, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychologist

Southwest Center for Psychological Development

5501 Spur 327

Lubbock, TX. 79424

Phone : (806) 7924713

Email : [email protected]

Carolyn J. Long, Ph.D.

1234 Derby Drive

Richardson TX. 75080

Phone : (972) 437-2131

Email : [email protected]

May have closed services as her website vanished

Larry Nahmias, M.D.

18333 Egret Bay Blvd., Suite 560

Houston, TX. 77058

Phone : (281) 333-2278

Feleshia Porter, M.S., LPC

3530 Forest Lane #188

Dallas, TX. 75234

Office Phone : (214) 904-8222

Cell Phone : (214) 454-8144

Email : [email protected]

Website : http://www.feleshiaporter.com

Rosenberg Clinic

Gender Treatment Program

1103 Rosenberg

Galveston, TX. 77550

Phone : (409) 763-0016

Formerly the Gender Clinic, University of Texas Medical Branch. Since the mid-1970s; professional services rendered to the transgendered community throughout the Southern U.S. Subscribe to the Standards of Care. Support group meetings held so new and old clients can meet and share experiences. Treatment services are available to those not specifically seeking surgical intervention.

Dr. Eileen Smith, M.D.

3300 Oakwell Farms

San Antonio, TX.

Phone : (210) 829-1994

Quite experienced in dealing with the TS/TG community.

Melissa Welsh, MA, LPC-Intern

1401 North Central Expressway, Suite 375

Richardson, TX. 75080

Phone : (469) 438-6262

Highly recommended by a MTF member of our site who has been helped with transition by Melissa. Melissa has completed a Master's degree in Counseling and has been counseling for over four years. She's practiced counseling in varied settings such as an in-patient psychiatric unit, a women's shelter, a clinic setting, as well as private practice. Though she has experience treating numerous issues, her focus has been on domestic violence, abuse, and psychological trauma. She currently holds a temporary license in the state of Texas. Under this license, she is considered a Licensed Professional Counselor Intern. She is under supervision of Ashley Lind, PhD. a clinical supervisor.

[Guest Zoe Tipsword]

You need Therapy to get treated and also to get any further treatment of any kind. also there are ways to get therapy that is not to expensive just look around I've heard of some people seeing interns and they need so many hour to complete there internship so it usually is low cost

[Guest Robin Winter]

If you want to save money, move to Canada. Therapy is free if you get a referral from you GP (which is also free). After that, the HRT is something in the realm of 30-40 dollars a month.

[Guest CharlieRose]

If you want to save money, move to Canada. Therapy is free if you get a referral from you GP (which is also free). After that, the HRT is something in the realm of 30-40 dollars a month.

And that's canadian dollars, right? So, more like 20-30 USD

[Guest Robin Winter]

And that's canadian dollars, right? So, more like 20-30 USD

*Shrugs* Hard to say. Last I heard Canadian and U.S. dollars were pretty much on par. I might be wrong about the pricing though, it might be less. I was just trying to give a safe number.

Yeah, I just checked, A canadian dollar is 93 cents U.S. right now.

[Guest NatashaJade]

If you want to save money, move to Canada. Therapy is free if you get a referral from you GP (which is also free). After that, the HRT is something in the realm of 30-40 dollars a month.

Last I heard, it's not especially easy to emigrate up North. I would love to move to the Vancouver area but life is not so simple, sadly.

Gin