Kaiser

[lobolance]

This evening (!) I got a call from an office of San Francisco Kaiser. I had been referred there by my local (Santa Clara) branch.

This San Francisco branch performs transgender care and surgery.

The nice lady was audibly sad that she could not help me, as though she worked at the place which could help me, I don't have the holy 'transgender benefit' at Kaiser; therefor they cannot will not help me. Insurance doesn't cover me. She helpfully suggested I get a job with the city of San Francisco (keeper of the holy benefit torch, along with just a few other places). Nice and all, but, really, should every trans American come get a job with the city in order to get health care. ? Meanwhile, my insurance company, which could take care of my health care needs insystem, won't. And they are *still* the best game in town.

I am yet another person health insurance doesn't take care of.

And on another front: do trans specific laws matter? Yes they do. Sure they shouldn't need to exist, but they make all the difference in the world.