Meet Lyon-Martin’s new PHYSICAL THERAPIST, AJ Pluss, DPT 😍😌
AJ (they/them, she/her) is a physical therapist specializing in chronic pain, general outpatient orthopedics, and pelvic floor rehabilitation.
AJ came to PT through health justice organizing and is really excited to join the team at Lyon Martin to work with other trans, gnc, nb and queer folks and to work in a politicized environment. Her political work has spanned racial justice, health and healing justice, prison industrial complex abolition, and indigenous solidarity work, as well as educating physical therapy students on social justice issues within PT and health care. Important frameworks of her practice include disability justice, anti-fatphobia, and integration of up to date pain science. They are Zapa (their parent name) to a wonderful and wild toddler and also love to cook, garden, and be out in nature.
We are beyond thrilled that AJ has joined our team, as gender affirming physical therapists are extremely difficult to find! AJ will be a key member of our interdisciplinary chronic pain management and substance use disorder treatment teams and will be able to support our patients who have chronic pain due to vaginoplasty complications, sexual trauma and atrophy due to long term testosterone use and menopause 🔑
Lyon-Martin is and will continue to be a PROUD, GENDER AFFIRMING ABORTION PROVIDER (no matter what SCOTUS decides). 🩺⚖️
Abortion is life saving healthcare. Bodily autonomy and self-determination is central to all the care we provide and no SCOTUS decision will change that.
🚨SPRING HAS SPRUNG🚨 COME GET YR HAIR & MAKE UP DONE 🚨
Lola & Makala return with a vengeance to satisfy all your cute spring & summer hair and make up needs 💄💋✂️🎀
Drop in Mondays 1:30pm-5pm on:
April 11
May 16
June 20
July 18
August 15
@visionsbylola @mochasmaven
For TDOV we would like to highlight our new OBGYN, Dr. Mitzi Hawkins🩺🏳️⚧️
Mitzi is an obstetrician and gynecologist who specializes in caring for transgender and gender non-binary people. She offers the full spectrum of OBGYN care including pelvic and genital disease therapies, hormone management, family planning, prenatal and birth care, and gynecological surgery, including gender affirming hysterectomy. Mitzi is a woman of transgender experience herself and is excited to join the Lyon-Martin team!
The addition of Mitzi has allowed Lyon-Martin to expand access to in-house colposcopy, intrauterine insemination, prenatal care, endometrial biopsies, consults for hysterectomies to be completed at UCSF, vaginoplasty post-op care, and a number of other complex procedures.
Mitzi’s research explores decision making by patients and healthcare providers with regard to gender affirming medical and surgical interventions. She also studies the effects of gender affirming hormone therapy on sexual and reproductive health. She is a member of WPATH and an editorial reviewer for the International Journal of Transgender Health.
Welcome Mitzi, we’re honored to work alongside you!
Lyon-Martin Executive Director JM Jaffe and Office of Trans Initiatives Acting Director Pau Crego highlight the importance of SB923, California’s new TGI Inclusive Care Act, in this new op ed (link in bio!).
SB923 will require healthcare providers to receive education and training about TGI communities by TGI trainers and will require insurance companies to provide easily accessible information about gender affirming providers that are in-network. This is a huge step forward, but we hope it is just the beginning!
Join us in celebrating Trans Day of Visibility! Thursday, March 31 6pm-9:30pm at SomArts 😍🏳️⚧️🥳
Please join us for an action-oriented discussion about “Nothing about us without us” Building Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) cacpcity in a consortium of LGBTQ+ health centers-a bold stakeholder-driven multi-pronged agenda for patient-centered outcomes research with LGBTQ+ communities.
During this webinar stakeholders representing Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, Howard Brown Health, Legacy Community Health, Lyon-Martin Community Health, and Whitman-Walker Health will discuss the ways in which they would like to move this agenda forward, the types of support needed to do this, and their vision for the future of LGBTQ+ health research.
This webinar is hosted by the Hunter Alliance for Research & Translation (HART) at Hunter College, City University of New York.
💕Meet our Board of Directors💕
We are beyond thrilled to be working with this phenomenal group of leaders😍✨
Chair: Vanessa Rochelle Lewis
Vice Chair: Angela Chi
Treasurer: Paul Hendry
Secretary: Alex Locust
Nahid Howard
Jae Maldonado
Anjali Rimi
Grace Lawrence
Esteban Rodriguez
Hannah Forsberg
Learn more on our new website: www.lyon-martin.org
Donate to support our work!
www.donorbox.org/save-lyon-martin
WE ARE FREE🥳🥳🥳🥳
Lyon-Martin Community Health Services is an independent nonprofit!!
WE SUCCESSFULLY RECLAIMED OUR CLINIC
Two years ago, our communities rallied to Save Lyon-Martin from the threat of closure.
Together, we successfully secured funding from the city to keep our doors open.
As of last week, on March 16, 2022, Lyon-Martin officially separated from HealthRIGHT 360 and obtained independent non-profit status.
Independence has allowed us to reinvest in our decades old by us, for us roots, centering TGI, Queer, & BIPOC providers, staff, and leadership more than ever before. We now have:
100% Trans Directorship
100% Queer Directorship
100% Black Trans Clinical Directorship
Over 70% Trans Staff
Over 65% BIPOC staff
6 of 7 Trans Primary Care Providers
7 of 9 Trans Mental Health Providers
And, a new mission:
The mission of Lyon-Martin Community Health is to provide trauma-informed medical, gynecological, and mental health care to Trans, Non-Binary, Gender Non-Conforming, & Intersex communities and cis-gender women with specific sensitivity to LBQA+ sexual orientation, disability, size, race, ethnicity, and language, regardless of immigration status or ability to pay.
We aim to eliminate health inequities for our communities by rooting our clinical practice in core foundational frameworks of intersectionality, self-determination, harm reduction, anti-racism, and reproductive and disability justice.
As a community clinic, we believe our communities are best served by and for us; that’s why community engagement and leadership development are central to our mission of community care and mutual aid. Lastly, we are committed to increasing access to culturally responsive care beyond our walls through provider training and education, and addressing systemic barriers to equity through policy advocacy.
We expanded programming and improved technology!
This is the beginning of a bright new chapter of Lyon-Martin’s storied history book, one solidly rooted in our collective visions of community care, crafted over generations.
Check out our new website: www.lyon-martin.org
Donate to support our vision:
www.donorbox.org/save-lyon-martin
New Year, New ~Virtual~ Groups! 💕🌱💻🎉
Enbies Group
Wednesdays 4:40pm-6pm
Trans Feminine Spectrum Group
Wednesdays 6pm-7pm
Trans Masculine Spectrum Group
Thursdays 4pm-5pm
Post-Op Meta/Phallo Group (Pre-Op Every 3rd Thurs)
Thursdays 11am-12:20pm
Grupo para personas trans, no binaries
y de género no conforme que hablan español
Tuesdays 2:30pm-3:30pm
Over 40 Group
Tuesdays 11am-12pm
Under 30 Group
Tuesdays 4pm-5:20pm
Call for zoom link
(415) 213-1919, ext 9017
Llámenos al (415) 213-1919, ext 9017
para conseguir el enlace
Oportunidad de desarrollo de la
fuerza laboral de Lyon-Martin!
BECA DE ATENCIÓN MÉDICA
QTI BIPOC
Beca pagada de 6 meses
recibir formación, tutoría,
y asistencia con las solicitudes de empleo para personas de color
queer, trans, GNC y/o intersexuales
8 horas/semana; $1000/mes
Fecha de vencimiento para las solicitudes es el 10 de febrero del 2022 para el 15 de marzo - 15 de septiembre
Aplicar en: www.healthright360.org/jobs
Si necesita ayuda con su solicitud, comuníquese con jesquivias@lyon-martin.org
🚨Announcing Lyon-Martin’s new QTI BIPOC Healthcare Fellowship🚨
Lyon-Martin’s QTI BIPOC Healthcare Fellowship is a paid 6 month long workforce development opportunity for Queer, Trans, and/or Intersex People of Color interested in entering the healthcare field. Priority will be given to Black Trans Women applicants. The fellowship will provide training, clinical experience, mentorship and assistance with job or school applications.
$1000/month; 8 hr of work/week; 2 fellows per cycle
Applications are due 2/10 for Fellowship cycle 3/15-9/15
Apply at: healthright360.org/jobs
💄MAKE UP MONDAYS with MAKALA💄 Come get pretty at Lyon-Martin with @mochasmaven for FREE 😍💋
Makala is a revolutionary Black Queer Oakland native committed to bringing their professional make up skills to the people!
Drop in to 1735 Mission St, SF
Monday 1/24 1:30pm-5pm
Monday 2/14 1:30pm-5pm
Monday 3/6 1:30pm-5pm
Now offering Moderna Boosters every weekday—Monday thru Friday—to any eligible person who is Trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, intersex, or a cis-gender woman.
You do not have to be our patient!
Schedule in advance or drop in during business hours!
1735 Mission Street, SF
M 1:30-5
T 8:30-5
W 10:30-7
Th 8:30-5
F 8:30 5
Come get boosted! 🚀
Rest in Power bell hooks
bell was one of the most influential writers and activists of our time. bell was most famous for her book “Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism, published in 1981 and for writing some of the most impactful prose and poetry about the experience of intersectionality. She was extremely prolific, publishing over 34 books and a number of children’s books as well. Her work had an immense impact on all of our lives, as well as on sociological and feminist theories of how the intersections of social positions of race, gender, sexuality and class collide to create unique experiences of oppression and community power alike.
She wrote eloquently about love, about how to love, about healing toxic masculinity and abuses of power in our interpersonal relationships. bell will always be held dearly in our hearts as someone who not only looked at systemic power, but gave us tools to recognize, unlearn and heal the ways that patriarchy and capitalism conditioned us to behave towards loved ones.
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”
Thank you bell 💔
🌹World AIDS Day🌹
A day to reflect on the memories of those we have lost to HIV and AIDS.
A day to re-ground ourselves in the fight against the unfounded discrimination and criminalization of people living with HIV and AIDS that continues to persist today.
A day to remind everyone that UNDETECTABLE = UNTRANSMITTABLE
📚Studies demonstrate that you cannot contract HIV from someone whose viral load is suppressed📚
We have lost our loved ones, disproportionately Black and Brown loved ones, because HIV stigma has and continues to pervade our society. Educate yourself and educate others! Fight against HIV stigma! U=U
❤️➕LOVE POSITIVE PEOPLE, LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN, ALL DAY, EVERYDAY➕❤️
#worldaidsday #savelyonmartin
💰GIVING TUESDAY💰
Did you know that Lyon-Martin provides QTI care by and for us, regardless of ability to pay?
90% of our clients live under the 200% FPL (less than $25,760/year)
68% live under the 100% FPL (make under $12,880/year)
You can help queer, Trans, and intersex people access the care they need but cannot afford. You can support Lyon-Martin by donating or by shopping 🛍 WWW.SAVELYONMARTIN.COM/SHOP
Special thank you to @therealmadisonyoung for sharing their experience at Lyon-Martin and to @northbayaesthetics for the fundraiser boost!
“Lyon-Martin is an organization that I hold very close to my heart. As a young queer artist, gallerist, and sex worker in San Francisco in the early aughts, the concept of health insurance was a far off dream and the task of finding unbiased healthcare in a clinic setting felt impossible. Far too many times I felt judged, shamed, and simply given inaccurate medical advice at clinics. That was never my experience at Lyon-Martin.
Lyon-Martin was a place where I could breathe. It was a place where I could have honest and open dialogue with my health practitioners. It was a place where I felt seen, cared for, understood and supported in my health and wellness. That is no small task. From the moment I would come in the door, I felt at ease - with community, with family.
I stopped avoiding my regular Pap smears. I took care of my body. I felt supported and knew that I mattered and my health and wellness mattered. At Lyon-Martin I didn’t have to defend who I was, my sexuality, my gender, my work, or any other part of my identity. I was supported and cared for in my wholeness with accurate medical information and support.
I will never forget the way this organization helped me to realize that I am in fact worthy of accurate, unbiased non-judgmental health care - we all are.”
- Madison Young, previous Lyon-Martin patient &
Producer, Director and Host of the TV show SUBMISSION POSSIBLE
As we navigate our organizational separation from healthright360, we want to offer some alternative ways to contact us.
Within the next couple months we will be going live with a new electronic health record system that will finally allow us to securely text and email our clients, dramatically improving our ability to communicate efficiently.
In the meanwhile, while we are still connected to healthrights call center, here are some direct numbers you can use to contact your care team:
☎️
Gabriela (Calvin & Nick’s nurse): (415) 901-7106
Mandy (Isabella’s nurse): (415) 901-7103
Karen (Sarah’s nurse): (415) 901-7112
Hans & Isaac (Referrals): (415) 901-7130
💰Donate $250 or more to us or one of our partner organizations @st.jamesinfirmary @transgenderdistrict @thespahrcenter_ and get FREE Botox at @northbayaesthetics 💉💋
💕Keep it cute💕 Drop in to Lyon-Martin for ✂️FREE HAIRCUTS✂️ with Lola & H! Twice per month Monday & Thursday 1:30pm-4:30pm💋
🎀Coming from a family of hairstylists, Lola’s interest in pursuing a beauty career began at 25 and has gone strong since 2010. As a transgender woman coming out later in her career, she’s heard all the bad queer haircut stories. Being able to help clients navigate their gender expressions through hairstyles is the most fulfilling part of her career and she’s dedicating to sharing her art with her community.🎀
💈H (they/them) is a Master Barber and specializes in short tapered haircuts, but they can do it all—Curly hair, fine hair, long hair, short hair. Come through Lyon Martin💈
Here’s our schedule for the coming months:
Monday, 12/6 Lola
Thursday, 12/16 H
Thursday, 1/20 H
Monday 1/24 Lola
Monday, 2/14 Lola (2/21 is a holiday)
Thursday 2/17 H
Monday 3/7 Lola
Thursday, 3/17 H
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥