"Transgender, gender-nonconfirming, and nonbinary New Yorkers deserve age-appropriate health care that is affirming, respectful, and considerate of all their needs. That’s why, for the first time later this summer, the NYC Health Department will be expanding services to provide gender affirming hormone therapy to adults 19 years of age and older at our Corona Sexual Health Clinic. As with the other clinic services, gender-affirming hormone therapy will be offered at no to low cost and regardless of immigration status. We look forward sharing more details upon launching the pilot,” said a NYC health Spokesperson in a statement to Erin In The Morning.

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Commissioner Alister Martin: “It’s incredibly important that we get the messaging right here and that we lean in on the comms and the campaign here, but it’s also important to deliver for people and to provide the services they need. And we’re excited to say that pretty soon we’re going to be able to offer gender-affirming care directly at our clinics. We have a clinic that will be opening up in Corona which will offer gender-affirming hormone therapy for adults. It’s like one of the first times a public health department has ever taken that step, and we’re proud to not just stop there. We’ll continue moving forward with this.”

Councilmember Tiffany Cabán: “Can I ask a follow-up on that? Particularly because that’s a really big deal, but also—we’re seeing this devastating decrease in services for youth, and especially youth under 13, 12—like, there are almost no providers who provide that care. And the one or two that do is obviously under attack from the federal government. So is there going to—are you thinking about an expansion in that youth care? Because I’m talking to parents all the time and they don’t know where to take their children.”

Commissioner Martin: “As you can appreciate, the balance that we have to strike is—we are committed to this issue and want to make sure that we provide the services and resources for youth, as well as making sure that we don’t expose ourselves to clawbacks from the federal government, which disrupt the rest of the care that we can give. And so there’s much more to come on this, trying to sort of figure out that right balance. We’re eager to work with you on this, but rest assured we are working on this and we’re trying to figure out how to do this.”

hey, I've been AFK from Lemmy for a while (sorry about that, life IRL has been rather busy and insane) - but I wanted to pop-in and see if I can answer any questions people might have about my surgery, I'm 1 year post-op. Ask me anything!

(EDIT 2026-06-10: alright folks, I'm probably going to go back to my AFK hole for a while until life gets a bit more chill; I have a tendency to want to spend all my time on the computer otherwise, lol. Love you all!)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66630945

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/45216578

this song is stuck in my head today, and the music video is perfect

I'm currently undergoing evaluation for ADHD & ASD, and as a part of that, one of the tests I was asked to take was the RAADS-R, and on the page with the test it explains the test's reliability and validity:

• Sensitivity 97% Test’s ability to identify positive results
• Specificity 100% Test’s ability to identify negative results
• Concurrent validity 96% Test’s validity compared with ADOS Module 4, SRS
• Test–retest reliability .987 Test’s agreement between results of successive measurements

A sensitivity of 97% means that 97% of autistic people who took the test met the cutoff score and were accurately classified as autistic. Said another way, it represents the proportion of autistics who were correctly classified as autistic based on the questionnaire.

In contrast, a 100% specificity score means that all (100% of) the neurotypical people who took the test were below the cutoff score and were accurately classified as non-autistic. It represents the proportion of neurotypicals who were correctly classified as neurotypical based on the questionnaire.

The takeaway is that the RAADS–R has a high probability of accurately classifying those who take the test as autistic or not autistic.

It then cites this article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134766/

I'm wondering how suspicious I should feel here by these numbers - I notice in the cited study, re-testing in a UCLA study was with only 15 ASD subjects and another 15 control subjects ... Of the studies listed, only one had more than 50 participants, most were fewer than 20 total.

I guess I wonder how confident we should feel that no neurotypical will score above a certain threshold (a score of 65)?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/40645952

Thought David Scott did a great job here.>

Thought David Scott did a great job here.

do you think it tastes like banana laffy taffy?

I have a friend who lives on the West coast of the US who refers to me as "buddy" a lot, and I don't mention it, but it gives me the ick (she knew me pre-transition). I think she just uses it like a gender-neutral word for anyone (the way "dude" and "bro" ca be used sometimes), but I'm triggered, lol 😅

In public / with people who never knew me before transition, people will often refer to me and whoever I'm with (they're usually women) as "ladies" (ironically my sister-in-law hates how often she is called "ladies" when she's around me, lol).

On the phone or individually people often refer to me as "dear". In the South, I got a lot more "sweetie", "honey", and even "sweet girl" and "good girl".

What have your experiences been like (before, during, and after transition)?