Healthcare Resources and HRT for the Transgender Community in Hawaii and Idaho

Hi Everyone,

You know that we want you to be healthy and safe.  To help you with your health care journey we are creating a list, by state of health care organizations that serve the transgender, nonbinary, gender queer and non-comforming community.  While we are creating this site for you, we are also doing this weekly post on health care.  While it’s nice to have a list, in these posts we can also give  you a few details on what each of the organizations we post actually do.  We’ll just go through the states alphabetically, unless you send us a note and request a particular state and we’ll move requests to the top of the list.

This week we are covering Hawaii and Idaho resources for Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender Non-Conforming Care.

Many resources are, to their credit,  creating  comfortable places for routine and proactive health maintenaince as well as interventionary health care.  We will try to highlight what is offered in each case.

If you still can’t find the health care you need, drop us a note on FB (B.UR.SLF LLC), instagram/ twitter @burslfllc or email burslfllc@gmail.com and we will see what we can do to help.

This week we are listing resources for Hawaii and Idaho.

Hawaii

Malama I Ke Ola Health Care Center (Website – Transgender Care, FB -none found, IG – #malamaikeolahealthcenter)

Services offered include Hormone therapy, primary and preventative care, referrals to surgeons, support letter to change gender markers, HIV prevention and treatment/STI testing and treatment, and mental health services.  There is also a Dental service associated with the health care center.

Payment Options:  Malama I Ke Ola Health Care Center has a sliding fee/ discount program available based on income, click the previous link for more info.

Malama I Ke Ola Health Care Center is located only in Wailuku, but also offers telehealth.

 No age limitation is specified, check with the provider for age limitations on specific services.

The Lavender Center (Webstie – Care for Transgender and Genderfluid people, FB – Lavender Clinic Hawaii, IG – none found)

The Lavender Center and Clinic offers a broad range of primary and preventitive health care, gender affirming hormone therapy, sexual health care including HIV prevention with PEP and PrEP  and extensive medical screenings to transgender an genderfluid people including , changing gender makers on legal forms, speech training, and referrals for gender affirming surgeries are available among many other services.

Payment Options: not stated check with the provider

The Lavender Center and Clinic is in Honolulu.

Adult and 12+ pediatric patients are accepted.  

Planned Parenthood of Hawaii has (2) Health Centers that belong to one organizaiton, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and Hawaiin Islands, PPGNHI (Website – PPGNHI, FB – PPGNI, IG – @ppgnhi) which offers Services for Transgender Patients

The Health Centers are Honolulu Health Center located in Honolulu and Kahului Health Center located in Kahului.

All health centers offer sexual and reproductive health including testing, treatement and prevention for STD/HIV as well as general health care and men’s and women’s health care.

Payment Options:  Many PP Health Centers accept insurance and offer financial help, check with the center for details 

The service is intended for adults 18+, but some PP Health Centers offer service to patients 16 to 17  andyou may be able to get HRT with parental consent and additional paperwork, check with the Health Center. 

VA Pacific Island Health Care Systems  (Websites – VA Pacific Island Health Care Services,  FB – U.S. Dept. of Veteran Affairs, IG – @VeteranAffairs)

According to the U.S. Dept. of Veteran Affairs, Patient Care Services for LGBT veterans  includes the following (and other) services – hormone treatment, treatment and prevention of STIs/PrEP, cancer screening, prevention and treatment.  If there are questions reach out to the LGBT Veteran Care Coordinator (VCC) at the site.

Payment Options: VA Health Care is offered free of charge to veterans.   Veterans may have some copays.

VA Pacific Islands Health Care System has (1) medical center, Spark M. Matsunaga Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in Honolulu and (10) associated clinics in Pago Pago, Guam, Hilo, Kailua-Kona, Lanai, Ewa Beach, Lihue, Kahului, Kaunakakai, and Saipan.

LGBT Veteran Care is for U.S. veterans.

Idaho

Family Medicine Health Center (Website – Transgender Clinic, FB – Family Medicine Health Center, IG – none found).

The clinic provides services to adults and children (ages 9-17) who identify as transgender, male to female, female to male, intersex, and those in between.  Hormone therapy and primary care is available,

Payment Options:  Family Medicine Health Center accept many insurances plans and they have a sliding scale available for patients who qualify, click the link for information.

The Family Medicine Health Center is located in Boise and telehealth is available

Services available for adults and children (ages 9-17).

QueerDoc (Website –  QueerDoc, FB – queerdoc, IG – @queerdoc)

QueerDoc offers queer and gender  diverse confirming telehealth medicine.  QueerDoc offers many services (click the previous link) including hormone therapy, puberty blockers, PrEP, STI screening, contraception, medical and surgical referals and gender marker change consultation. – ALL ONLINE via TELEHEALTH.  Set up a free 15 minute consultation by pushing the Request Appointment button.

Payment Options: click the link for pricing options.

Since QueerDoc is a telehealth service, QueerDoc serves ALL of Idaho state.

Services from QueerDoc are open to patients of all ages.

Davies Family Medicine (Website – LGBTQ+ Services, FB – none found, IG – none found).

Davies Family Medicine provide family medicine including wellness exams for babies to adults and specifically for LGBTQ+ clients hormone therapy, trans-affirmative gyneocological care, and STD diagnosis and treatment.

Payment Options: none stated on the website contact the provider for details.

Davies Family Medicine is located in Boise

Services appear to be pediatric (babies, children, youth) to adults, but check with the practice about age limits on specific services since these are not obvious.

Planned Parenthood of Idaho has (3) Health Centers that belong to one organizaiton Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and Hawaiin Islands (Website – PPGNHI, FB – PPGNI, IG – @ppgnhi) which offers Services for Transgender Patients

The Health Centers are Boise Health Center located in Honolulu, Meridian Health Center located in Meridian and Twin Falls Health Center located in Twin Falls.

All health centers offer sexual and reproductive health including testing, treatement and prevention for STD/HIV as well as general health care and men’s and women’s health care.

Payment Options:  Many PP Health Centers accept insurance and offer financial help, check with the center for details 

The service is intended for adults 18+, but some PP Health Centers offer service to patients 16 to 17  andyou may be able to get HRT with parental consent and additional paperwork, check with the Health Center.

Boise VAMC  (Websites – Boise VAMC,  FB – U.S. Dept. of Veteran Affairs, IG – @VeteranAffairs)

According to the U.S. Dept. of Veteran Affairs, Patient Care Services for LGBT veterans  includes the following (and other) services – hormone treatment, treatment and prevention of STIs/PrEP, cancer screening, prevention and treatment.  If there are questions reach out to the LGBT Veteran Care Coordinator (VCC) at the site.

Payment Options: VA Health Care is offered free of charge to veterans.   Veterans may have some copays.

Boise VAMC has (1) medical center in Boise and (5) associated clinics in (4) in Idaho located in Caldwell, Mountain Home,  Salmon and Twin Falls and (1) in Oregon located in Hines.

LGBT Veteran Care is for U.S. veterans.

About the author, Gayle M. Frankenbach, Ph.D. is the mother of a Daughter, Lise and a transgender son Elliott.  Elliott and Gayle both passionately desire to care about and care for the trans community.  Elliott and Gayle also both love the unbound creativity of the cosplay community.  When we realized there is a big overlap between the two communities B.UR.SLF, LLC was born at the interface of these two great communities to serve them individually and together.  Elliott and Gayle also enjoy running a trans son & parent business to be visible for parents on a journey to visibly support their own trans kids and be a great allies.