Jamison Green, President of the WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health) gave an invited talk at Fenway Community Health Center in Boston, MA on October 20, 2014, where he spoke about the state of transgender healthcare in the U.S. and internationally.
You will find below the audio recording of both Jamison’s talk and the question and answer session that followed. I only had permission from Jamison and not from members of the audience to record, so I cut out the audio of the questions (posed by members of the audience) and put transcriptions of them in the video below. I also removed any personal, identifying information from the transcribed questions and from Jamison’s answers. I made revisions to some of the transcribed questions in order to provide clarity. In instances where I could not understand parts of a question in the recording, I put my best guess in the transcription as to what the person had asked.
I did not have a microphone on Jamison, so the audio recording is not the best, but I enhanced the voice aspect of the recording and the result is, for the most part, understandable. I have not transcribed Jamison’s talk or his answers to questions.
I also have provided, below the video, links to information that pertains to the event and subject or was mentioned by Jamison during his talk or in his answers to questions.
–ATM
Links:
Fenway Community Health Center
The Transgender Health Program at Fenway Community Health Center
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Departmental Appeals Board Decision No. 2576 “… that the National Coverage Determination (NCD) denying Medicare coverage of all transsexual surgery as a treatment for transsexualism is not valid.”
Massachusetts Department of Health and Human Services: Patrick Administration Announces Steps to Ensure Equity in Health Care Coverage for Gender Dysphoria
National Institutes of Health Report: The Health of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People
Primary Care Protocol for Transgender Patient Care, UCSF Center of Excellence for Transgender Health
Endocrine Treatment of Transsexual Persons: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline
American Medical Association (AMA) Policy H-185.950 Removing Financial Barriers to Care for Transgender Patients
(AMA Resolution 122/A-08 pdf)