Medical School Launches Transgender Nursing Program, Cites Women’s Need for Prostate Exams – Opinion

Transgender individuals who’d love to be nursed will soon get their very special wish.

Columbia University doesn’t lag behind in social advancement. In fact, its nursing school has launched a new program aimed at contemporary “inclusion.”

Interested parties can now earn their degree in “Transgender Non-Binary Health Care for Advanced Practice Nurses and PAs.”

A description is available on the site of this school:

Columbia University School of Nursing’s Certificate in Professional Achievement (CPA) in Transgender Non-Binary (Trans NB) Health Care for Advance Practice Nurses and PAs is designed for advanced practice nurses and physician assistants to advance their knowledge and skills to provide quality care to trans NB people. The program prepares advanced practice nurses and physician assistants to support the health of trans NB people along the continuum of care and formulate a care plan that addresses follow-up, ongoing care, and preventative screening. The program also prepares clinicians to integrate mental health in the care of trans-people and their families.

Columbia explains the track is offered “completely online in a synchronous and asynchronous format.” The reason: “To reach the widest audience and to assist in preparing a workforce of clinicians accessible to trans NB people regardless of geographic location.”

Here are the required 12 credits:

• NURS7400N
  Health assessment of Transgender Nonbinary (Trans NB, Individuals)
• NURS7402N
  The Mental Health of Transgender Nonbinary (Trans NB), People
• NURS7410N
  Transgender Non- Binary Health Clinic
• NURS7411N
  Transgender Non- Binary Seminar (Trans NB Health)
• NURS7401N
  Transgender Individuals (Trans NB): Treatment Interventions

In March of last year, the school issued a release championing the “first-ever” initiative of its kind:

Health care providers receive scant training on transgender care; [Laura Kelly, PhD, an associate professor of nursing and director of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program] estimates nurses get about an hour’s worth of instruction on caring for LGBT patients in total. “Even if you’re on the East or West Coast, the care for trans folks is lacking,” she says.

In a 2017 poll, 31% of trans people reported not having regular access to health care, and 22% said they avoided doctors due to fear of discrimination.

Access to affirming health care can be a matter of life and death. Transgender people are at increased risk of suicide, while gender-affirming treatment sharply reduces this risk.

People who wish to view themselves by their gender and not by their sex need care that is based on sex. Transgender women might experience problems with their testicles. Something more sinister could lurk north of her penis.

Trans people may also need to undergo the preventive care required for their biological sex, for example prostate cancer screening for those born male.

Demand is outpacing supply

To address the scarcity of clinicians trained to treat trans patients, Columbia Nursing is launching the first-ever Certificate in Professional Achievement in Transgender/Gender Non-Binary Health Care for Nurse Practitioners this September. “We are committed to having only transgender faculty teaching the CPA program. Currently, the program has four faculty members who are seasoned nurse practitioners and identify as transgender,” says Kelly…

Back to the course list, “treatment interventions” will involve the following:

• Sending Support Letters
• Sexual Health
• Fertility
• Hormone Therapy
• Gender affirming surgical care
• Pubertal Suppression

The medical swerve has been mastered by medicine:

Breastfeeding Academy Bails on ‘Breasts’

UCLA Medical Symposium Demands Doctors Accommodate People Who Aren’t Men or Women

To Be Inclusive of Non-Binary Parents, Hospitals Nix the Terms ‘Breast Milk’ and ‘Father’

‘The Practising Midwife’ Magazine Releases Transgender Issue Featuring Bearded Birthing Parent

Hospitals Are Starting to Ask Men if They’re Pregnant

University Schools Midwifery Students: Handling the Birthing Penis

“Gender identity” aside, if you doubt the hands-on anatomical arena has changed:

Doctors who ‘Nonbinary Affirm’ Gender Offer Sexual “Nullification” Surgery
https://t.co/lTNxG1zudN

— RedState (@RedState) May 28, 2021

Even so, as noted by Campus Reform, not everyone’s on the same page. Johns Hopkins Professor of Psychiatry and Distinguished Service Professor Dr. Paul McHugh stated this in 2015.

“[G]ender dysphoria…belongs in the family of similarly disordered assumptions about the body, such as anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder.”

He’s not for the knife:

“[Gender dysphoria]The body should not be treated with hormones and surgery. It is no different from treating obese patients with liposuction. It should be aimed at correcting the problematic, false nature of the assumption as well as resolving the psychological conflicts that led to it. With youngsters, this is best done in family therapy.”

Despite Paul’s position, industry leaders — like climate change combatants — appear to have surmised “the science is settled.”

So how will Columbia’s program fare? We will find out in the future.

One thing is certain, and it underpins the evident thinking behind the new certificate: Some patients aren’t like the others…

It could be the perfect Saturday story.

Man’s Penis Falls Off, Doctor Adds One to His Armhttps://t.co/YaWwWkohQM

— Alex Parker (@alexparker1984) July 31, 2021

-ALEX

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