First Clinic In Central Texas Catering To Transgender Patients Set To Open

AUSTIN, TX — As lawmakers continue to debate whether or not the state should ban transgender peoplefrom using the public bathrooms of their choice, a nonprofit is quietly poised to open the first transgender-care clinic in Central Texas, according to a published report.

Located in a medical complex near 30th Street and Interstate 35, Kind Clinic will soon provide services uniquely tailored to the transgender community, including hormone therapy for individuals who are transgender, gender non-conforming or nonbinary, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

The clinic is an offshoot of HIV-prevention efforts by the Texas Health Action nonprofit has provided since May 2015, according to the report.

Texas Health Action Executive Director Joe McAdams told the newspaper of the clinic's expanded mission in offering the service, but noted the counterbalance it represents in a state where conservative lawmakers are intent on controlling transgender individuals freedom of movement to use public bathrooms labeled with the gender listed on their birth certificate rather than the one matching their sexual identities.

“Now is the time to be the antithesis of what’s coming from the political side” of the state, McAdams told the newspaper. “That’s why we’re leaning into this.”

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