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Latest Carnival cruise problem
PASSENGERS from the Carnival Dream were heading to the airport Thursday instead of sailing home after an on-board generator problem halted their trip in the latest maintenance headache for the world's largest cruise line.
The Dream was in St. Maarten on the final stop of a Caribbean cruise when the crew announced they would not be sailing home to Port Canaveral, Fla., because of a mechanical issue with a diesel generator, passengers said.
Carnival Cruise Lines said the Dream had a "technical issue" with its backup emergency diesel generator that was discovered during a test on Wednesday. A company statement said the ship did not lose power but there were periodic interruptions to elevators and restrooms.
Carnival said all systems were functioning normally Thursday, but the company had decided to make flight arrangements for the passengers to return home by air.
Passengers strolling about the Dutch Caribbean town of Philipsburg told The Associated Press the power and water were out for 10 to 20 minutes, contradicting media reports of longer outages and unsanitary conditions.
The Dream has been on a seven-day cruise of the Caribbean with 3,646 passengers. The ship's March 16 voyage from Port Canaveral has been cancelled.
An engine fire crippled the Carnival Triumph in February, leaving 4,200 stranded for five days without working toilets or power.
Canada falling behind: UN
OTTAWA -- Canada has slipped out of the top 10 countries listed in the annual United Nation's human development index -- a far cry from the 1990s when it held the first place for most of the decade.
The 2013 report, which reviews a country's performance in health, education and income, places Canada in 11th place versus 10th last year.
A closer look at the trends shows Canada actually did better than last year, but other countries such as Japan and Australia improved at a greater rate.
The main finding of the report is positive, that some of the world's poorest countries are consistently improving areas such as life expectancy, school attendance and per capita income.
Even the countries at the bottom of the list, Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo, are among those that showed the greatest improvement.
Nepal judge gets nod
KATMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal's chief judge was named head of an interim government in an attempt by the Himalayan country's main political parties to cure the paralysis and infighting that have blocked elections for months.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Khilraj Regmi was sworn in Thursday by President Ram Baran Yadav, and his choices of former bureaucrats Madhav Ghimire as home minister and Hari Prasad Neupane as law minister took the oath of office with him.
An agreement signed late Wednesday night by leaders of Nepal's four main political parties says Regmi will have an 11-member cabinet and the interim government will hold elections by June 21.
Smaller parties oppose the move. Protesters vandalized government vehicles Thursday and shut down the country for hours.
No more death penalty: governor
EUGENE, Ore. -- A power struggle between a death-row inmate who wants to be executed and a governor who refuses to let it happen reached Oregon state's highest court Thursday as lawyers sparred over the governor's power.
The lawyer for a man convicted of two murders argued that Gov. John Kitzhaber lacks authority to delay Gary Haugen's execution without the inmate's consent.
Kitzhaber, a death-penalty opponent, regretted letting two other inmates be put to death and said he won't allow it to happen again. He blocked Haugen's execution in 2011, two weeks before Haugen was scheduled to die by lethal injection, delaying the sentence until the governor leaves office.
Haugen's lawyer, Harrison Latto, said the Oregon state constitution allows the death penalty and that trumps the moral views of the governor.
The governor argued his clemency power is absolute, and nobody -- certainly not an inmate on death row -- can prevent him from doing what he believes to be in the state's best interest.
If you can make it there...
NEW YORK -- New statistics show more people moved into New York City than out of it last year. It's the first time in more than 60 years.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday cheered the reversal as a sign of the city's quality of life.
The finding comes from new census estimates that put the city's population at a record high of 8.3 million.
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the city's population has grown by more than 161,500 people since 2010. The increase is also due to a growing gap between births and deaths as life expectancy increases.
Cop gets surprise after pull over
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- An Iowa City police officer pulled over a speeding SUV -- then helped the driver and his passenger deliver a baby.
When officer Kevin Wolfe stopped the vehicle Sunday night, the driver jumped out and yelled, "Sir, we're delivering a baby right here, right now!"
Wolfe told a Cedar Rapids TV station by the time he reached the passenger door of the SUV, the baby's head and arms were already out. He assisted in the final stages of the delivery and wrapped the child in a blanket before escorting the family to a hospital.
The episode was captured by Wolfe's dashboard camera.
Police spokeswoman Vicki Lalla says Wolfe didn't issue a speeding ticket and so did not take down the parents' names.
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"Texas Chainsaw 3D" a dull blade
Less than a week ago, I made some film-related resolutions, one of which was to see a good horror movie before I put an axe into the floundering genre. It didn't take long – four days to be exact – for Hollywood to attempt to reinvigorate my love for horror flicks with "Texas Chainsaw 3D." Too bad that the sequel did the complete opposite, putting the flaws of today's horror films on glorious 3-D display and slamming yet another nail into the genre's blood-soaked coffin.
Because making original horror movies is hard, "Texas Chainsaw 3D" is a sequel. But not a sequel to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" remake from 2003 starring Jessica Biel, which also had a prequel in 2006. Instead, it's a sequel to the 1974 original, taking place immediately after the Tobe Hooper-helmed horror classic, which already had a sequel. Several, in fact.
Also, "massacre" has been removed from the title (as well as "the" because using articles is for squares, daddy-o) and replaced with "3D," perhaps by marketing execs thinking the only thing more terrifying than a massacre is shoddy 3-D. However, without "massacre," we're left with just "Texas Chainsaw," which could be about Leatherface taking care of some old trees in his backyard. I've never been one to judge a book by its cover, but "Texas Chainsaw 3D" seems to be actively challenging me to do so. Luckily for me, the cover is a pretty accurate representation of the entire movie in that it's really dumb.
Heather (Alexandra Daddario) leads our new band of chainsaw fodder, all of whom may have names but are just the usual stereotypes: The Skanky One (Tania Raymonde), The Black One (hip-hop artist Trey Songz) and The Quirky One – usually the stoner but this time defined only as a chef who dresses like a lost member of Sugar Ray. The attractive and bland posse packs into a van to head to New Orleans, with a quick pit stop in Texas for the adopted Heather to investigate who her real family was. Of course, Leatherface ends up leading the welcoming committee, and characters the audience wasn't particularly attached to wind up losing body parts they were very attached to.
It would be easy to list off the usual horror movie complaints found in "Texas Chainsaw 3D." The characters lack any depth, and any development only serves getting a character murdered or undressed. The acting is serviceable at best and embarrassing at worst, though the script doesn't help (The Skanky One, providing insight on a gate: "There must be something behind it"). It's chauvinistic, with Daddario's outfits showing more skin than our killer's mask – even after she's given a shirt, she refuses to button it. And of course, the plot is mouth-breathing dumb.
These are all the expected problems with modern horror. Constantly griping about those flaws is like complaining about winter being cold. What's disappointingly bad about "Texas Chainsaw 3D" is the massive void of scares the film delivers. It takes a long time for director John Luessenhop (previously behind the insanely generic "Takers") to get to the scares, and he gets there without much of a sense of building mood or tension. When we finally get to the massacre assumed from the title, it's all gore with no real horror and no reason to care about who is getting axed (or chainsawed in this case).
The last point is the biggest issue. By the end of the movie, you're somehow rooting for Leatherface. Part of this is because all of the main characters end up revealing themselves to be jerks. That may have been a dumb screenwriting accident, but then the film tries to make Leatherface sympathetic by making the real villains slack-jawed, Bible-thumping Southern yokels who want revenge. You might be asking yourself why the screenwriter would want to do such a terrible thing. That's a mighty fine question. It completely defangs one of horror's most famous icons – I should never be cheering for Leatherface to get his chainsaw back – and the vengeance-seeking Southerners aren't scary; they're just generic, dumb and annoying.
I'll give "Texas Chainsaw 3D" this: It's the first movie I've seen in which a character is saved by her cleavage. It's not exactly an innovation the film should be proud of, but considering the state of horror, I guess audiences have to take what they can get.
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Wasted time: Is Washington ready to work?
Immediately after President Obama won reelection the focus in Washington, D.C., turned to avoiding the fiscal cliff. It was a reminder of just how little has been accomplished in the nation's capital in the last four years.
The "fiscal cliff" refers to the $500 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts ($400 billion in tax hikes, only $100 billion in spending cuts) set to take effect at the end of this year if the President and Congress cannot agree to another arrangement in time. Economists of all political leanings agree that the failure to reach a deal will plunge the economy into another recession.
The inability of Washington to reach a deal to lower the debt and bring the budget closer to balance was a huge failure of the last four years. It was not the only one. We are no closer to fixing Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security than we were when President Obama took office. We are more than $5 trillion deeper in debt. The unemployment rate was 7.8 percent in January of 2009, when Obama was sworn in as President. It is 7.9 percent now. The tax code remains a tangle of growth-choking complexity, institutions that are "too big to fail" still pose huge risks to our national economy, and health insurance prices continue their upward march.
The longer the agonizingly slow pace of this recovery persists, the clearer it becomes how much time both sides squandered. The American people voted on Tuesday to give Washington a little more time. But there is not much left. If they don't use it wisely, we are all going to pay a heavy price.
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Goody for Our Side and Your Side Too
Foreigners are people somewhere else,
Natives are people at home;
If the place you're at
Is your habitat,
You're a foreigner, say in Rome.
But the scales of Justice balance true,
And tit leads into tat,
So the man who's at home
When he stays in Rome
Is abroad when he's where you're at.
When we leave the limits of the land in which
Our birth certificates sat us,
It does not mean
Just a change of scene,
But also a change of status.
The Frenchman with his fetching beard,
The Scot with his kilt and sporran,
One moment he
May a native be,
And the next may find him foreign.
There's many a difference quickly found
Between the different races,
But the only essential
Is living different places.
Yet such is the pride of prideful man,
From Austrians to Australians,
That wherever he is,
He regards as his,
And the natives there, as aliens.
Oh, I'll be friends if you'll be friends,
The foreigner tells the native,
And we'll work together for our common ends
Like a preposition and a dative.
If our common ends seem mostly mine,
Why not, you ignorant foreigner?
And the native replies
And hence, my dears, the coroner.
So mind your manners when a native, please,
And doubly when you visit
And between us all
A rapport may fall
Ecstatically exquisite.
One simple thought, if you have it pat,
Will eliminate the coroner:
You may be a native in your habitat,
But to foreigners you're just a foreigner.
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OTC cough and cold products can be harmful if more than the recommended amount is used, if they are given too often, or if more than one product containing the same active ingredient is used. In January 2008, FDA issued a public health advisory recommending that OTC cough and cold products not be used in infants and children under 2.
Serious injuries and deaths have resulted from such errors as misunderstanding directions and failing to use the measuring devices that come with the medicine. For more information, see http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm048682.htm.
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To avoid accidental overdosing, consumers should not take more than the recommended dose on the label. Also, acetaminophen should not be taken for more days than recommended, and should not be taken with other drug products that also contain acetaminophen without direction from a health care provider.
Parents should be cautious when giving acetaminophen to children. For example, the infant drop formula is three times more concentrated than the children's liquid. So parents need to be sure to give the appropriate dose.
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FDA has issued warnings about the fentanyl transdermal system, an adhesive patch that delivers an opioid called fentanyl through the skin. An opioid is a potent pain medicine. It is also sometimes called a narcotic drug. Other examples of opioids include hydrocodone, morphine, and oxycodone.
The directions on the product label and package insert of the fentanyl transdermal system should be followed exactly in order to avoid overdose. Fentanyl patches should not be used for short-term acute pain, pain that is not constant, or for pain after an operation. The patch is only for moderate-to-severe chronic pain that is expected to last for any number of weeks or longer and that cannot be managed by acetaminophen-opioid combinations, nonsteroidal analgesics, or as-needed dosing with short-acting opioids.


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Started by glory30 , Feb 18 2013 05:19 PM
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Posted 18 February 2013 - 05:19 PM
hi every one
My DD started school this year she will turn 5 by the end of this march, the first couple of days are good at school, and on the third day she was a bit crancky and asked me to stay back,so on the fourth day i asked the teacher about how she is going and we had a long discussion and said that my daughter is extremely shy and she doent open up quickly,
we speak two languages at home one being our mother tongue and the other english so she had a bit of difficulty in talking she can express her needs but she is not chirpy and spun stories. she knows all the alphabets numbers upto 20 shapes , confuses with days of a week but says atleat 4-5 of them,and i asked teacher if at all its possible for me to stay with her to help her and i thought she needs that extra push,the teacher said that she is not following instruction, looking at the windows and she is not attentive this all happened after she attended school barely for 4 days and suggested it would be good if she had done ELC/kinder
exacltly following wednesday the teacher gave me a call and showed how she didnt write her name where as other kids did and when asked to pair up the two pictures that is the labell ball and the picture ball she cldnt do it and the other kids did it.and even after helping her with a marking those with the same colour she cldnt paste them in the corresponing order and how she didnt go on the dotted lines to write 1 and how she coloured all the pictures when asked to colour only things that are single how her colouring skill are poor that she coloured them all and the other kids book she showed me the kid coloured her ball with 3 colours and it was all neat with out any thing coming out, and suggested that it would be better if she does teh ELC,
i said its ok i put her in ELC and changed her accordingly but i felt the whole scenario was some thing fishy, and i feel bad for myself not giving her enough time to settle in
is my thinking right or does my child really need help and i am not able to accepy the reality please pour in your thoughts
Posted 18 February 2013 - 05:32 PM
I think the teacher has not given her enough time to settle in and has judged her ability too quickly. Is she the correct age for FYOS in your state or were you sending her early? If sent early, fine, put her in ELC. If sent on time she should be given a chance to settle in and learn.
ETA: Lots of kids in FYOS can't write their name, colour in one colour and colour outside the lines.
Edited by ~maryanne~, 18 February 2013 - 05:33 PM.
Posted 18 February 2013 - 05:32 PM
I don't think its really possible to say from the examples you have given.
But the teacher has nothing to gain from telling you that your daughter would benefit from another year of preschool so I would take her professional opinion on board. Kids do learn a lot about taking instruction, paying attention to the teacher etc in preschool type programs. It will also (hopefully) help enormously with her language and confidence.
To me it sounds like you have done the right thing. Hopefully with another year she will be better able to enjoy starting school.
Posted 18 February 2013 - 05:34 PM
hi rawr thaks for the reply she doesnt know the days of week in our language
Posted 18 February 2013 - 05:34 PM
In terms of her age I am of the view that you send them as early as possible UNLESS there are reasons not to. In your DD's case I would say there are a few reasons not to (language, confidence etc). Obviously there are huge benefits to being bilingual but at the moment she may well just need that extra year. good luck OP.
Posted 18 February 2013 - 05:38 PM
From the limited information you have given here, I would probably agree with the teacher's assessment. Your daughter sounds to be struggling with many of the skills and language that would be mastered in a preschool. With a birthday in later March, I would be sending her to preschool for a year and sending her to Kindergarten next year.
Posted 18 February 2013 - 05:39 PM
What state are you in?
In nsw she would be very young for her year plus having English not as her primary language & having never attended preschool I think the teacher may be right. I think a year of preschool & then starting kindy slightly older might be the best approach.
With language at home does she get consistency (eg English from one parent & mother tongue from the other?) or do both parents speak English as their non primary language?
Posted 18 February 2013 - 05:40 PM
It sounds as if your child is both socially and 'academically' behind the children in her class, who I imagine are all older than her if she is not yet 5. I don't know what state you are in, but usually parents spend some time thinking about whether or not to send their kids to school if they have birthdays between December and April, and many kids in this age range are recommended to do another year of kinder by their kinder teachers.
If your daughter has never done kinder/ELC/preschool and you have sent her straight to school at the early end of the spectrum, then I don't think the teacher is bein unreasonable to suggest that you should ascend her to kinder first.
It doesn't mean she is 'behind', it perhaps just means she hasn't yet ha a chance to learn skills that would make her better able to cope with school. And trying to teach those skills at school is likely to be way more stressful for her than sending her to a preschool program for a year. I would take your teachers advice seriously.
Posted 18 February 2013 - 05:40 PM
Hi OP,
The fact that English isn't her first language might explain some difficulty understanding instructions, which could be why she isn't completing tasks according to directions. She may understand quite well in a different setting, but with a lot of noise and activity in the classroom it is harder.
If she can't trace along dotted lines or colour within the lines yet her fine motor skills may still be developing. She would be one of the youngest in her class - another year will make a big difference. The combination of being younger and not being confident speaking English may leave her struggling. It would be a shame to see her lose confidence in her ability as a learner when neither of these things have any reflection on her intelligence.
Giving her a year in ELC will give her time to develop a bit more and improve her English before she has to deal with formal learning in the classroom. I don't think you have anything to lose by taking the teacher's suggestion, and potentially a lot to gain.
Posted 18 February 2013 - 05:43 PM
I just looked up SA starting ages,
At the moment they allow kids to start at the start of the term AFTER they turn 5, but that is soon to change to:
If your child turns five before May 1, they will start school on the first day of Term One in that year. If your child turns five on or after May 1, they will start school on the first day of Term One the following year.
If the teacher was suggesting you hold your child back based on 4 days at school, I'd think she was being hasty.
ETA: Scrap that, I read it wrong. I'm surprised it is that easy to hold a child back. In QLD it is strongly discouraged, even when they are struggling in the younger grades.
Edited by ~maryanne~, 18 February 2013 - 05:46 PM.
Posted 18 February 2013 - 05:45 PM
Has she been to preschool at all OP? If not, which is what I am assuming from your post, then because she is at an age where she could start FYOS this year or next year, then I would put her in preschool this year. I think that it is awesome that she is bilingual as it will benefit her hugely in the future, but if you guys primarily speak your mother tongue at home it might help her in FYOS with a bit more exposure to English in a day to day sort of sense. Also I do think at least one year of preschool really does help children fit in FYOS.
Posted 18 February 2013 - 05:56 PM
thanks regularshow for the insight
thanks maryanne she is not even 5 but she fall into the eligible group so we strated her earlier and all the kids in aher class are 5+ and nearing to 6 i dont have any problem to start her in ELC in fact she started already but i just want to know whether i doing right or way too confusedabout whether i am doing the right thing
yes kay1 the teacher wont gain anything but you see its me who is feeling nervous whether i took a right decision or not and she would definetly enjoy her school with incresed levels of confidence
Posted 18 February 2013 - 05:56 PM
Sounds to me like a lazy, lazy teacher. My daughter certainly couldn't read - even if it was the word 'ball' when she started school - she too did not go to kindergarten. She been at school a couple of years now and she is flying.
I think most kids who are five would struggle to tell you what day of the week is it today, and what day was it yesterday.
I agree - sounds fishy to me. I think she just wants your daughter to stay back so it is easier for her!!!
Posted 18 February 2013 - 06:11 PM
QUOTE (zzgirl @ 18/02/2013, 06:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Sounds to me like a lazy, lazy teacher. My daughter certainly couldn't read - even if it was the word 'ball' when she started school - she too did not go to kindergarten. She been at school a couple of years now and she is flying.
I think most kids who are five would struggle to tell you what day of the week is it today, and what day was it yesterday.
I agree - sounds fishy to me. I think she just wants your daughter to stay back so it is easier for her!!!
The majority of kids can't read so most first year of school teachers would be understanding of that - that's why they use other strategies like matching colours.
Kids are developing their concepts of time but I would expect most kids starting whoop to have developed an idea of days and weeks - often through attending activities such as preschool on certain days.
I don't think preschool is essential for all kids - but it certainly makes a difference for some children, especially those from a language background other than English.
OP - I think you have made the right decision. If your daughter is in a class with 5-6 year olds who have done preschool (ELC), and she is younger without that preschool background then she sounds like she might struggle. I'd send her to to the ELC for a year.
Posted 18 February 2013 - 06:16 PM
QUOTE (TillyTake2 @ 18/02/2013, 06:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
In nsw she would be very young for her year plus having English not as her primary language & having never attended preschool I think the teacher may be right. I think a year of preschool & then starting kindy slightly older might be the best approach.
Really? This hasn't been my experience. My DD is mid-March birthday and is not 'very young for her year'. She also has quite a few ESL kids in her class.
Posted 18 February 2013 - 06:18 PM
QUOTE (zzgirl @ 18/02/2013, 06:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Sounds to me like a lazy, lazy teacher. My daughter certainly couldn't read - even if it was the word 'ball' when she started school - she too did not go to kindergarten. She been at school a couple of years now and she is flying.
I think most kids who are five would struggle to tell you what day of the week is it today, and what day was it yesterday.
I agree - sounds fishy to me. I think she just wants your daughter to stay back so it is easier for her!!!
yes four days into school that really sounded fishy to me and she compared with someoone who did it really well in fact i can say wow for the ither kid who did it when i look at the other kids book and mine she really did it shabby
but onething that is poking me am i taken for a free ride to make her job easy
yes defineltly she will be more confident and she really will develop fine motor skills. infact she is the youngest in the class,so i thought its better for her and moved her to ELC, but the thing which is irking me a lot how come one can know about a kid in 4 days and totally my kid went to school for 8 days
Posted 19 February 2013 - 12:53 PM
This is interesting. A very similar thing happened to a friend of mine.
Her DD started FYOS in Victoria last year. A few weeks into the year, the teacher raised concerns about the little girl stating she couldn't read, draw, etc and pushed for her to be moved to the ELC.
My friend decided to get a second opinion and took her DD to another school and explained the situation to them. They assessed her and decided she was fine to continue in Prep in that school. So she moved her little girl into the other school.
The child came a long way with the support of her Prep teacher. She was reading well above the expected standard, writing and certainly at the level expected at the end of Prep last year. She is thriving now in Year 1.
Posted 19 February 2013 - 01:01 PM
My favourite (and most clever and articulate) colleague at work told me recently that she did ESL (as it was called then) as a child.
I would rather my child go now for two reasons. The teacher does sound like she is not going to be able to give your child the support she needs so you are better off not having her as your child's teacher to be honest. Also, your child seems to be able to understand concepts it's just difficult for her to communicate them.
I really think you should consider the ESL (or whatever it is called now) option.
Posted 20 February 2013 - 09:23 PM
I'm in two minds.
I think the thing here is that OP's child is the age where she can go to either ELC or FYOS If she had done a year of preschool, to be perfectly honest, she'd be doing the things the teacher was looking for. In the context of the site, the OPs child is obviously not doing the same things as her peer group. This can be a disadvantage.
If she is still young enough for ELC, given the fact she is an EALD child (English as an Additional Language Dialect), who has not done preschool, I would support the year of ELC. I would not support a year of ELC if she was turning 6 in March. The year in ELC will be of great benefit to her, OP, especially as a bilingual child.
I do not believe the teacher is lazy, nor that she has railroaded or been sneaky with the OP. It sounds like a considered decision based on the age of the child, her classification as an EALD student and the fact the child has not done preschool. It is possible to gain quite a bit of insight into a child in only a few days. You can learn a lot with a few assessments.
Assessments are the core of teaching and they do actually tell you a lot in a very short space of time.
Could the child thrive in FYOS? I would say she certainly could. But it will take a lot more effort to do so this year than to do so next year. I'm in favour of giving the child every opportunity to succeed, not set them up to fail. I think continuing FYOS in this situation could do that.
All the best for your DD's learning journey, OP
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The Lighthouse Café, on the west of end of Dexter's Main Street, quietly closed its doors at the end of February. "We're gonna go out like we usually do," Sandi Varney said a few days before the closing. Sandi and her husband, Steven, owned the restaurant for twelve years; she blamed a bad economy for the closing. "It's sad, very sad," she said, but "it's time to quit."
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The city's Health Commission voted Tuesday to create a comprehensive program for treating transgender people experiencing mental distress because of the mismatch between their bodies and their gender identities. San Francisco already provides transgender residents with hormones, counseling and routine health services, but has stopped short of offering surgical interventions, Public Health Director Barbara Garcia said Thursday after the vote was announced.
The idea for a new program that included surgeries came out of conversations between public health officials and transgender rights advocates who wanted mastectomies, genital reconstructions and other surgeries that are recommended for some transgender people covered under San Francisco's 5-year-old universal health care plan.
At the urging of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the San Francisco-based Transgender Law Center, the commission agreed this week to drop sex reassignment surgery from the list of procedures specifically excluded from the Healthy San Francisco plan.
But Garcia described the move as "a symbolic process" for now because the city currently does not have the expertise, capacity or protocols in place to provide the surgeries through its clinics and public hospital.
"The community felt the exclusion on Healthy San Francisco was discriminatory and we wanted to change that as the first step," she said.
Instead of expanding the existing plan, the Health Commission approved the establishment of a separate program that covers all aspects of transgender health, including gender transition. Garcia hopes to have it running by late next year, but said her department first needs to study how many people it would serve, how much it would cost, who would perform the surgeries and where they would be performed.
"Sex reassignment surgery is not the end all. It's one service that some transgender people want and some don't," she said. "We can probably manage this over the next three years without much of a budget increase because we already have these (other) services covered."
San Francisco in 2001 became the first city in the country to cover sex reassignment surgeries for government employees. Last year, Portland, Ore. did the same. The number of major U.S. companies covering the cost of gender reassignment surgery for transgender workers also doubled last year, reflecting a decades-long push by transgender activists to get insurance companies to treat such surgeries as medically necessary instead of elective procedures.
Kathryn Steuerman, a member of a transgender health advocacy group in San Francisco, said the city's latest move would help residents avoid going into debt to finance operations related to gender transition, as she did.
"I am filled with hope and gratitude that we are achieving this level of support for the well-being of the transgender community," Steuerman said.
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