Gender Affirming Care

Appointments

Consultation – Your first appointment is a 30-minute consultative appointment at Lafene. Your provider will focus on getting to know you and assessing your personal goals for your journey, including fertility preservation or surgical options.
Initiation of Hormone Therapy – If you wish to proceed with hormone therapy, that will be initiated at Lafene or a referral will be sent to the University of Kansas Health System Gender-Affirming Medicine Clinic for a telehealth appointment. Lafene or the Gender-Affirming Medicine Clinic will determine what treatment and any workup that would be necessary. You may choose to have your labs done at Lafene and have prescriptions filled at our pharmacy whether you are under the care of Lafene or the Gender-Affirming Medicine Clinic.
Follow-up Hormone Therapy – The follow up visits will be with your provider at Lafene. These will be 15-minute appointments to determine how you are doing and ensure that you are tolerating hormone therapy.
Nurse Visit – This appointment is a 15-minute appointment with a nurse, in which the nurse can administer hormone injections or teach you how to self-administer hormone injections safely.

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Scheduling and Preparation for the Appointment

Appointments may be scheduled online through your myLAFENE+ portal. Simply visit the Lafene website and click on the portal. Once logged in, you can make an appointment by clicking on the “Appointments” tab in the left-sided menu and then “Schedule an Appointment.” “Gender-Affirming Care” is the appointment type you want to select.

Initial (30min) and follow-up (15min) appointments are available.

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Costs

Every student on the Manhattan campus that pays the student services fee, each semester, is eligible for this service. This fee covers the cost of consultations and follow-up visits with a Lafene medical provider. If you decide to initiate treatment with The University of Kansas Health System Gender-Affirming Medicine Clinic, any visits you have there are not covered with that student services fee and will be billed through their clinic.

All other ancillary services such as labs and medications, do have a charge and may be billed to insurance. We will bill your insurance if your insurance provider has a U.S. address. We do not bill Medicaid or Medicare. You are responsible for any non-covered charges. If you have questions about charges for specific services, you may contact us by secure messaging the Billing Coordinator in the portal or by calling us during normal business hours at 785-532-6544.

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Resources

Resources for K-State Students

Transgender Resources

Transgender Institute Kansas City - 816-305-0943
420 W 42^nd St., Suite 11, Kansas City, MO 64111

The Trevor Lifeline - the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people.
24-hour hotline - 866-488-7386
www.thetrevorproject.org

The Transgender Law Center changes law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression. http://transgenderlawcenter.org/

Gender Spectrum provides support and education to transgender youth and families https://www.genderspectrum.org/

The New York Times Wall of Transgender Stories http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/storywall/transgender-today

Social Security: How to change your gender marker
http://www.transequality.org/know-your-rights/social-security

Center of Excellence of Transgender Health- a lot of information on protocols, treatments, and health concerns for transgender people.
https://prevention.ucsf.edu/transhealth

Learning More – Excellent Resources for Friends and Family

The Gender Book - This is an excellent introduction into gender roles in our society and a great starter for anyone wanting to learn more about gender. Best yet, it is FREE!
https://thegenderbook.com

PFLAG Lawrence/Topeka - PFLAG is the nation’s largest organization for family, friends and allies of LGBTQ+ people www.pflagnekansas.org

Parents of Transgender Children Facebook Page - this is a private Facebook group, exclusively for parents of transgender children. More details on how to become a member can be found on this page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/108151199217727/

Shook, Hardy & Bacon Law Firm - Provides Pro Bono legal services and representation to members of the transgender community for name and gender marker changes throughout Missouri as well as cases in Kansas when near Kansas City.
Address: 2555 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64108 Phone: 816-474-6550
Website: http://www.shb.com/

Questions or Crisis?

Trans Lifeline - a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to the well-being of transgender people. They run a hotline staffed by transgender people for transgender people. Trans Lifeline volunteers are ready to respond to whatever support needs members of the community might have.
US - 877-565-8860
Canada - 877-330-6366

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