Medical Resources

Santa Cruz County Hormone Price Guide

Banking (sperm/egg)

CryoChoice

CryoChoice maintains an FDA registered sperm bank which has processed and stored thousands of samples for clinical use. They provide home collection kits for privately banking sperm.

Tel: 800-619-7869 (Toll Free)  Web: www.cryochoice.com  

Monterey Area

The Fertility and Gynecology Center
9833 Blue Larkspur Ln., Monterey, CA 93940
Tel: 877-733-4483
Web: www.montereybayivf.com

San Jose Area

Fertility Physicians of Northern California
2581 Samaritan Drive Suite 302, San Jose, CA 95124
Tel: 800-597-2234 Fax: 408-356-8954
Web: www.fpnc.com Email: info@fpnc.com

San Francisco/Bay Area

The Sperm Bank of California (TSBC)

TSBC is the first and only sperm bank in the United States to operate as a nonprofit organization. Their mission is to provide services, information, and resources to all individuals and families who choose to create or expand their families through donor insemination and sperm storage. Trans-friendly.                                      2115 Milvia St. Suite 201, Berkeley, CA 94704
Tel: 510-841-1858 Fax: 510-841-0332                                                                                                                                                                                Email: info@thespermbankofca.edu  Web: www.thespermbankofca.edu

Stanford University IVF/ART Program

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
900 Welch Rd Suite 350, Stanford, CA 94304
Tel: 650-498-7911  Fax: 650-498-6175  Email: fertilitycenter@stanford.edu
Web: www.stanfordivf.com

UCSF Center for Reproductive Health

2356 Sutter St, 7th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94115
Tel: 415-353-7475 Fax: 415-353-7744 Email: info@ucsfivf.org
Web: www.ucsfivf.org

Clinics

San Francisco/Bay Area


Dimensions Clinic: Health Services for Queer & Questioning Youth

The mission of the Dimensions Collaborative is to combine efforts across agencies to develop health care programs and services that increase health care access and education for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Questioning Youth.

Open: Thursdays and Saturdays   3850 17th St., San Francisco, CA 94114                                                                                                                                   Tel: 415-934-7789 or 415-934-7700 (for appointments)  Fax: 415-558-8221                                                                                                                         Email: dimensions.clinic@gmail.com  Web: www.dimensionsclinic.org

 

Lyon Martin Women's Health Services

Lyon-martin provides personalized healthcare and support services to women and transgender people who lack access to quality care because of their sexual or gender identity, regardless of their ability to pay. Lyon-Martin has created a trans-affirmative environment that encourages patients to develop an ongoing relationship with one of our transgender specialists that goes beyond just getting hormones and looks at all of their health and wellness needs.

1748 Market St., Suite 201, San Francisco, CA 94102                                                                                                                                                               Tel: 415-656-7667 Fax: 415-252-2512  Email: info@lyon-martin.org   Web: www.lyon-martin.org  

 

Tom Waddell Health Center

The Transgender Clinic of Tom Waddell Health is committed to providing quality, integrated health care in an atmosphere of trust and respect. They are a multidisciplinary primary care clinic focusing primarily on the needs of underserved populations of inner city San Francisco. Primary care means they treat your whole body, not just your gender issues. Being multidisciplinary means they address all your concerns, not just your medical problems. They have nutritional, mental health and social services, and they work closely with community organizations.

50 Ivy St. (Lech Walesea St.), San Francisco, CA 94102                                                                                                                                                               Tel: 415-355-7400 Email: sfgh.dphmail@sfdph.org (for nonmedical questions)                                                                                                                        Web: www.sfdph.org/dph/comupg/oservices/medsvs/hlthctrs/tomwaddellhlthctr.asp

 

Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center

Two trans-specific programs provided: Asian and Pacific Islander Transgender Empowerment and Trans: Thrive.

730 Polk St., 4th floor, San Francisco, CA 94109                                                                                                                                                                     Tel: 415-292-3400 Fax: 415-292-3404  Web: www.apiwellness.org 

Trans: Thrive is a program seeking to foster a healthy trans community empowered by the leadership of its peers by providing educational workshops, social events, case management, peer testing/counseling, etc...  Drop-in center.                                                                                                                                               815 Hyde St., 2nd floor, San Francisco, CA 94109                                                                                                                                                                   Tel: 415-409-4101 Fax: 415-409-4105 Web: www.transthrive.org

Pharmacy

Strohecker's Pharmacy

Trans-friendly mail order pharmacy for hormones. Provide needles and syringes at no additional cost to client. Fast and knowledgeable service to trans clients.

2855-A S.W. Patton Rd., Portland, OR 97201                                                                                                                                                                          Tel: 503-222-4822 Fax: 503-222-4868 Email: stroheckers@stroheckersrx.com   Web: www.stroheckersrx.com  

Monterey Area

Sherwood Care Pharmacy

Mixes and sells numbing cream for hair removal. The numbing cream ingredients are EUTEC-D (L/P/D/PE 15/5/0.5/1%) CREAM #60.

1007 N Main St., Salinas, CA 93906  Tel: 831-424-1655

Physicians

Monterey Area

Alisa Health Center (General Practitioners)

559 E. Alisal St., Salinas, CA

Tel: 831-769-8800

Santa Cruz

Catherine Forest, MD

To make an appointment at UCSC call 831 459-2500. 
All students with UCSC insurance need an appointment to get an off-campus counseling referral and a physical exam and labs before getting an off-campus hormone start referral. 

Email: Dr.CatherineForest@gmail.com  

 

Jennifer Hastings, MD

Hormone therapy

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Westside, Santa Cruz, CA

Tel: 831-460-3130 (main #4)

 

Jennifer Schreck, MD

Hormone therapy

Palo Alto Medical Clinic, Santa Cruz Branch

Tel: 831-458-5670

 

Jeffery Williams, MD

Hormone therapy

Dominican Medical Foundation Santa Cruz, CA

Tel: 831-465-7778

San Jose Area

Richard Cherlin, MD

Hormone therapy

Los Gatos, CA

Tel: 408-358-2663

 

San Francisco/Bay Area

Lori Kohler, MD

Director, Correctional Medicine Consultation Network

Associate Clinical Professor

Department of Family and Community Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

Tel: 415-476-2041 Fax: 415-476-2207

 

Charles Moser, PhD, MD

California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

Tel: 415-621-4369  Fax: 415-621-8134

 

Catherine Forest, MD

UCSF Lakeshore Family Medical Center

Tel: 415-353-9339 Email: Dr.CatherineForest@gmail.com

Surgery

San Francisco/Bay Area

Michael Brownstein, MD

MTF-FTM

1001 Mariposa St., Suite 101, San Francisco, CA 94107                                                                                                                                                          Tel: 877-255-2081 (toll free) or 415-625-3230 Email: admin@brownsteinmd.com                                                                                                                Web: www.brownsteinmd.com  

 

Peter K. Davis, MD

Cosmetic MTF

1515 El Camino Real, Suite D, Palo Alto, CA 94306                                                                                                                                                                Tel: 650-326-6800  Web: www.davisplasticsurgery.com 

 

Andrew Epstein, MD

Urologist providing orchiectomy procedures

795 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94301                                                                                                                                                                                     Tel: 650-853-2988  Web: www.pamf.org/ProviderSearch/?sitecfg=41&action=providerdetail&masterid=6944&isLevelOne=1

 

Eugene Kaplan, MD

MTF

120 La Casa Viaduct, Suite 20, Walnut Creek, CA 94598

Tel: 925-979-9969 Fax: 925-979-9979

 

Douglas K. Ousterhout, MD, DDS

Plastic surgeon specializing in facial feminization

45 Castro St., Suite 150, San Francisco, CA 94114

Tel: 415-626-2888 Email: ousterht@cris.com

Web: www.drdouglasousterhout.com

 

If you’d like to suggest any additions or corrections to the resource list please contact Shanti Zunes-Wolfe at shanti@coho.org


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