One of the only clinics offering gender-affirming medical care in Thunder Bay, Ont., has closed, leaving trans patients in the city and surrounding region with few options.
Last week, the Umbrella Medical Clinic, which provided sexual health services, announced it would shut until further notice.
“It just feels like whiplash,” Dax O’Neill, a patient, said about Umbrella Clinic’s closure. “It’s going to be hard for me to get testosterone, the treatment that I need.”
Gender-affirming care is a blanket term for health care that supports a patient’s gender identity and expression. It can include any combination of counselling, hormone therapy, puberty blockers and
