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“Navigating Trans Care in Colorado” examines what safe and accessible gender-affirming care comprises and how trans folks access and navigate it in Colorado. Using Disability Studies and Queer Theory/Studies as frameworks attentive to Intersectionality, I analyze how transness is medically and socially pathologized and how medical care access is limited based on factors such as race, class, citizenship status, disability, and location. Additionally, I critique the Medical-Industrial Complex (MIC) as a site that, embedded in racism, eugenics, ableism, transphobia, white supremacy, and capitalism, renders public health into a profit enterprise rather than a fundamental human right. This research focuses on Colorado, as it is one of the few states that has established legal protections for trans individuals. Through research, networking, and interviews with trans folks with experience accessing gender-affirming care in Colorado, I compiled a Google Document of resources including gender-affirming doctors, sites to access informed-care hormone-replacement therapy (HRT), and non-Medical Industrial Complex community spaces.

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