I have had a long arc of a career in health care, and it has taken that long to understand how it all works, because it's so complicated. I started working with queer and trans kids in the streets of Boston right out of law school and saw up close how crappy the healthcare system was for our community. I’ve spent the last 30 years in health care. That's the less polite way of saying it, yeah.Īt some levels, this was the most obvious thing. What made you decide to pursue healthcare? It would be hard to start any company, but to build a queer and trans health care company requires fortitude…. That said, we're in a real zeitgeist moment. Proving there are enough of us to be worth some VCs time is a lot of work. There's a lot of stealth people actually in the older age ranges that just have never been comfortable sharing that identity in a public way. And the younger age groups, people who identify as queer is a rapidly growing demographic, because people are more comfortable identifying. But when are surveys done by queer and trans identified organizations, that number like jumps up to 20%. There is this idea that we're only like four and a half percent of the community. The next question is how many queer and trans folks are there to serve? This has always been a big question and there is a lot of shitty data out there. The first big hurdle is getting people to understand the magnitude of the pain. There are very few people in the VC community that are part of our community.
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View full post on Instagram Can you tell me a little bit more about the roadblocks you came across when creating Folx? When that happens, we will be including trans pediatrics-that’s in the distant future. In the very long range future, we want to open our own clinics so we can offer visits for things that really have to be in person. That's absolutely on the roadmap, probably later this year, or very early. And what about queer family planning services? Is that stuff going to be rolled out?
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They’ll be able to add also skin and hair specific supplements and medications, because as you know, there can be skin and hair complications from hormones, and sometimes they can make your skin go crazy. Folks can choose estrogen, they can add Spiro, they can add antiandrogens, progesterone, and more. It is already part of the basic HRT package. What medications are being covered now and what is being taken into consideration for future rollouts?
I know a lot of queer folks take medications that are common within the trans community, but are not specifically for the trans community-like Sprionolactone, which is prescribed for acne, hypertension, and hormone-blocking. That did not line up 100%, but we got as close as we could.
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There are certain states that will license our clinicians more quickly, and the target states were based on where we saw the greatest need. We’re starting in 10 to 12 states, and then it'll roll out across the country over the course of the next six or seven months. So as hard as it is, we have also been blessed with enormous numbers of people who have stepped forward to say they are really eager to be part of this service.
The queer community has a lot of caregivers, and a lot of people who have been waiting for something like this. The patient should be in control, and the clinician’s job is to support them by providing services that enable them to achieve their goals for care. Our ethos is also different from sort of traditional medical ethos-we’re not just going from patient centric, we're actually going for patient control.
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