Minnesota is a refuge for trans health care. Here's how doctors are meeting the need
NPRMinnesota is a refuge for trans health care. Then, there’s Minnesota, which has gone in the opposite direction, passing a bill last year that made the state a “trans refuge.” “We’re this island in the middle of states who are banning and restricting access,” says Dr. Kelsey Leonardsmith, director of youth gender care at Family Tree Clinic in Minneapolis. Sponsor Message “You have two choices, you can get scared and say, ‘I don't know if we can do that,’” she says. Instead of freezing from fear, says Leonardsmith, “the other thing you can do is you can say, ‘We're going to do it, we're going to do it more, and we're going to teach everyone else how to do it, too.’” That attitude is how Family Tree came to run the Midwest Trans Health Education Network. toggle caption Selena Simmons-Duffin/NPR Across town, Dr. Kade Goepferd, a pediatrician who runs the gender health program at Children’s Minnesota, says a lot of their patients’ families have ended up moving to the state, rather than travel in periodically for appointments.
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