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Bioethics, healthcare policy, and related issues.

May 2, 2006

Guidelines for Acceding to Patient Requests

by @ 6:04 pm. Filed under General, Autonomy, Provider Roles, Women's Issues, Access to Healthcare, Reproductive Ethics, LGBTQ Issues, Sex, Biotechnology, Healthcare Politics, Disability Issues, Medical Science

Jay Sennet posts his “Trans[sexual] Political Agenda” - a cri du coeur on the subject of outsiders’ cluelessness about the lives of those with non-normative gender status or identity.

  • Understanding medical personnel who don’t treat us like freaks.  Those that do should be excommunicated from their profession.  Criminal charges should be vigorously pursued at all times where appropriate.
  • Cheap, barrier free access to healthcare insurance. 
  • Retiring the Harry Benjamin Standards of Care.
  • The removal of transsexuality and all trans-related diagnosis from the DSM.
  • A federal requirement that all states must recognize requests for gender changes on birth certificates - no amendments.
  • A permanent ban on the “trans panic defense.” 
  • Permanent, federally supported anti-discrimination legislation for employment, credit, public accomodations and anything else the feds can do to protect us from all the asshats and assclowns in the u.s.
  • The creation of legal gender categories other than m or f.  Make it legal to carry multiple forms of identification that have “contradictory” gender information.
  • A federal requirement that trans prisoners be sequestered for safety.
  • A criminal category for prisons and mental health institutions that stop hormones of inmates.
  • He do like to stir shit up.

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