Our Profession Under Fire
GAC and My Duty to Report
Last year SB 14 was passed outlawing transgender conversion therapy for minors in TX. Kathleen became aware of a local, N. TX counseling group that publicly offers to write the GAC letters required by the WPATH conversion protocol before any medication or surgery may be applied. This particular counseling group also sees children which raised…
Read MoreAetna Tightening Virtual Appointment Coverage Benefits
About a month ago Aetna, sent out an email to its various subscribers and a copy of it ended up in my Inbox. The gist of it was that they would no longer be providing policy coverage for virtual, or telehealth appointments. Let that soak in! It wasn’t clear if this new policy applied to…
Read MoreChapters 2023 and 2024
2023 has been an eventful year for us here at AMHP. We’ll end the year with a membership total twice what we expected it to be back on Jan 1. Thank you. We produced a lot of content we’re very proud of and we had a very successful first annual conference in October. We attribute…
Read MoreControversial is Not Political
“It’s too political!” I’ve heard this comment several times in the past few weeks in relation to the civil discussion of ideas and it gave me pause to consider its usage. Controversial is Not Political First, I’m not convinced there is any such thing as “too political”. What does that even mean? Can something be…
Read MoreDid You See This Ad About Hate Comments?
The propaganda machine is never very far behind a crisis, is it! Less than two weeks ago, as of this writing, the Hamas-Israel conflict began and last night during Game 3 of the World Series I had to endure a commercial about how hate comments against Jews have increased a bazillion percent since the conflict…
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