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Hi, I recently decided to explore doing something about my trans issues, and would like advice and support. I spoke to my therapist, who recommended connecting with transgender services at Kaiser, who covers that. I'm 49, assigned "male" at birth, and have been wanting to be a girl as far back as age 8. Thank you.

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Hello WendyLynn,

Welcome to Laura's Playground. :)

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Hi Wendy, I am a little bit north of you, but I am a member of the Kaiser HMO who has gotten good help and service from them, in counseling and in Endo and related health issues. I have actually provided training for a few of their providers and they are for the most part eager to know more and how to be caring as well as giving care. I was a year early for getting GCS from them but HRT and other related medical have been great. My gynecologist and endocrinologist have both received special training on how to deal with me. Enjoy yourself here.

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Hello WendyLynn and welcome to Laura's. Please join in to the conversation!

Cheers,

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Welcome to Laura's WendyLynn. Glad you found us. Grab a seat on one of the swings and enjoy the fact that your not alone.

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WendyLynn, welcome to Laura's! Nice to have you here! I am 58, and its been a long-slow journey.

Wish you the best in your journey ahead.

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Hi there Wendy and welcome to Laura's forums :)

I do hope you enjoy your time here with us and find this web site useful.

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Hi WendyLynn! I'm also from San Diego, but I live in San Jose now. I'm glad to hear that you've decided to explore your identity! I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I have!

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Thank you, everyone! I've been at work and such and haven't been able to reply until now. I'm not sure how far I want to go with things, or how quickly. I've had a lot of trauma in the past around this issue and its manifestations, but recently I've had very supportive and accepting friends who have inspired me to explore my options.

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Hi Wendy, I am a little bit north of you, but I am a member of the Kaiser HMO who has gotten good help and service from them, in counseling and in Endo and related health issues. I have actually provided training for a few of their providers and they are for the most part eager to know more and how to be caring as well as giving care. I was a year early for getting GCS from them but HRT and other related medical have been great. My gynecologist and endocrinologist have both received special training on how to deal with me. Enjoy yourself here.

Thank you! I did hear that Kaiser in Los Angeles and Northern California are great for trans care. I do have a wonderful therapist outside of Kaiser who has helped me immensely with other issues for the past couple of years. I have not yet contacted my psychiatrist at Kaiser. She is great, but I don't know how I'm going to approach her yet. I worry about the confidentiality aspect - can I use Kaiser's transgender services without any of my other Kaiser providers knowing? Will I have to see a Kaiser therapist in addition to my regular therapist? Could get expensive. I don't even know what I want to do yet, apart from hormones.....I have no intention of "coming out" in the foreseeable future to anyone who doesn't already know. (A few close friends, my sister and her wife, maybe the local LGBTQIA center)

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Welcome to Laura's WendyLynn. Glad you found us. Grab a seat on one of the swings and enjoy the fact that your not alone.

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WendyLynn, welcome to Laura's! Nice to have you here! I am 58, and its been a long-slow journey.

Wish you the best in your journey ahead.

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Hi WendyLynn! I'm also from San Diego, but I live in San Jose now. I'm glad to hear that you've decided to explore your identity! I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I have!

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With Kaiser, your mental health is the same co-pay as your doctor visits, and any group work is about half of what the doctors are. Low, and that includes Gender Therapy as well. Your mental health records stay in the mental health department and you will have some control over who sees them there. The only exception will be if it is found that some drug is not a good thing for you. IE for me Prozac will not be prescribed again You can give your current therapist permission to talk with any new therapists that you see, and you can make it specific. Depending on what services are local to you they may even cover some outside care as well, but I know they are trying to get all their regions covered with GD care.

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Hiya WendyLyn,

Welcome, nobody will be critical of how far you wish to go - that decision is yours and yours alone to make. Come in, take a seat and make yourself at home - you're amongst friends.

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I'm with Kaiser on the east coast, and I would say that they have been great. It was nice having everything in one place and not worry about the endo, GT, and GP being on the same page. I was recently invited to an information session to speak with the surgeons they are signing on to handle GCS. From what they have told us, they are expecting to remove any trans care exclusions in their policies (mine had it for the last plan year) and make them all uniform.

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Hi Wendy Lynn,

Welcome to Laura's. It's good to meet you! Where ever you go or however far you travel on your journey, you are always welcome here. Hope you can join in the conversation!

Lots of love,

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Hi Wendy and welcome. I'm just up the street from you in north county. I also have Kaiser and as far as insurances go, it's one of the better ones. That's particularly true in CA. They are very good when it comes to confidentiality, protecting health information, and appropriately sharing between providers. You'll have more control over that with Kaiser vs. other insurance companies.

As far as where you want to go, you can determine that with the help and support of therapist as well as others that you've mentioned. Regardless, in the end it's up to you and you don't need anyone's approval. We'll take ya however! This is a really good forum and though I've only been here a short time, I feel very welcome. There are some really caring knowledgable and supportive people here.

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