In 2011, Amy Clark was diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer after experiencing an incredibly painful earache. She had four courses of chemotherapy and 38 radiation therapy treatments as part of a clinical trial. After her cancer treatments, she decided to begin her transition.
Since then she has experienced misinformation and transphobia from the healthcare system:
I’m being marginalized because the doctor just doesn’t believe that I’m real, that my experience is real, that my body is real.
Amy now volunteers for the Canadian Cancer Society as a patient peer reviewer on grant applications. Read the full story here.