transit-website/transition-us.md

Name Change -- Private care -- Self-medding

Name Change {#namechange}

See: http://www.transequality.org/documents/state/maine

This has information about how to change your legal name/ID, across various parts of USA.

South Carolina

https://www.scequality.org/public/files/docs/SCNameChangePacket-small.pdf

Name Change info: here

Private care {#private}

Chase Brexton (Maryland, USA)

http://www.chasebrexton.org/

Informed consent clinic in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. If you live in this area or nearby areas (e.g. Washington DC) then you can use this clinic for HRT. Informed consent means you just get HRT, once they check your blood test results and so on (i.e. no gatekeeping).

This clinic *also* prescribes sublingual estradiol, unlike most clinics (it also can prescribe oral or transdermal). Most clinics do not prescribe sublingual.

Go to chasebrexton.org

Fenway Health (Massachusetts, USA)

http://fenwayhealth.org/

Informed consent clinic. If you live in the state of Massachusetts, you can use this provider for HRT. You can also use this if you live nearby, e.g. Rhode Island.

They also have this useful guide showing how to change your legal name and gender marker on official documents, if you live in Massachusetts.

Go to fenwayhealth.org.

Thundermist (Rhode Island, USA)

http://www.thundermisthealth.org/Services/TransHealthAccess.aspx

Informed consent clinic, can prescribe hormones.

Go to http://www.thundermisthealth.org/Services/TransHealthAccess.aspx

Michelle Forcier (Rhode Island, Providence, USA)

https://www.lifespan.org/michelle-forcier-md

Go to your GP, and ask for a referral to her. The hospital that she operates in is:

RIH Dept. of Pediatrics
245 Chapman St, Ste 100
Providence, RI 02905
401-444-5980
401-444-3873

Go to https://www.lifespan.org/michelle-forcier-md

Self-medding {#self-hrt}

In the US, depending on your city/state, you might be able to get HRT prescribed quickly (within a month) by a doctor, instead of having to self-medicate. Look for an informed consent clinic in your area.

If you can get HRT quickly via informed consent, we recommend doing that instead of self-medicating. Your insurance will cover any expenses, and if not, HRT is usually cheap enough without insurance, depending on income (it's certainly cheaper than self-medicating, in a lot of cases).

We have a list of informed consent clinics here - if you know of any that are not listed there, let us know!