“The Saddle Lake Cree man has known he wanted to be a doctor for a long time: since he was four years old, according to his online biography. He laughs about the detail when asked. “It was just something that I was always interested in,” he said.
It took him a little longer to focus on transgender health as an area of expertise.
Makokis attributes that idea partly to his colleague Adrian Edgar. “If you really want to make a difference in medicine,” he recalls Edgar advising him, “why don’t you start doing transgender health because there’s so few physicians who provide medical transitioning for patients. And there’s so many barriers to doing that.”
“You will save lives if you do this.” Makokis said he was told by Edgar.
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“McIvor recalled his brother describing procedures that sounded to him like medical experiments.
“He would share vivid details of what happened,” he said. “Carts brought into the dormitories with little bottles of different coloured liquids, with medical staff standing around them with clipboards, documenting every reaction.”
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