Local Fresno LGBTQ+ Affirming Medical Providers

Local Healthcare Professionals Providing LGBTQIA+ Competent and Gender Affirmative Care

• Fresno Collective for Inclusive Medicine

  • Dr. Julie Nicole open for telehealth visits beginning Feb 2025, call (559) 889-3246

  • Carlos Lopez (he/him) to provide gender-affirming electrolysis

  • Dr Nicole providing GYN care and transition-related care

  • Expected physical location at 3032 Tulare St open date March/April 2025 with Dr. Nicole & Carlos

  • Dr Schmitz (providing Family Medicine/Primary Care) to join circa summer 2026

• Andrew G. See (Community Primary Care- Fir South) (he/him)

  • Family Medicine, provides Primary Care in a private clinic site

  • Provides Gender Affirming Health Care and PrEP

  • Will have some Medi-Cal availability by early 2024; call office directly and ask to be put on waiting list

  • Habla español

• Diana Howard, MD (Family Health Care Network- ACC) (she/her)

  • Family Medicine, provides Primary Care

  • Provides Gender Affirming Care and PrEP

  • Accepts Medi-Cal

  • Currently (as of 12/4/23) to make an appointment, call FHCN ACC directly at (559) 608-6500, Option 2 for Family Medicine and request Dr. Howard specifically- will eventually have option to make appointments online

  • Habla español

• Robin Linscheid, MD (United Health Centers- Minnewawa Office)

  • Family Medicine, provides Primary Care

  • Provides Gender Affirming Care

  • As of Fall 2023, now with UHC at Minnewawa Office

  • To make an appointment call (800) 492-4227 and be VERY SPECIFIC about requesting an appointment with Dr. Linscheid only, for gender affirming care

  • Accepts Medicare and Medi-Cal

• Marie Mihara, MD (Camarena Health, Madera- 6th Street Health Center) (she/her)

  • NOTE: Dr Mihara will be moving out of the area effective the end of October 2024

  • Dr Samantha Schmitz will be caring for her patients

• Samantha Schmitz, DO (Camerena Health, Madera -6th street health center) (she/they)

  • Family medicine, provides Primary Care

  • Provides gender affirming care and PrEP

  • Accepts Medi-Cal

  • To make an appointment call the appointment line at 559-664-4000 and ask specifically for Dr Schmitz.

• Brandon Shumway, MD, MPH (Central Valley Indian Health Project- Bullard Clinic) (he/him)

  • Family Medicine, provides Primary Care (non-Native patients welcome at Bullard Clinic)

  • Provides Gender Affirming care and PrEP

  • Provides substance use disorder treatment

  • Accepts MediCal

  • Habla español

• Lacy Chastain, LM, CPM - Midwife (she/they)

  • Provides home birth services, as well as pre-and postpartum care in one of her two offices in Fresno/Visalia

  • Also provides well-person exams for anyone with a uterus (PAPs, exams, etc)

  • Operates from a holistic, whole-person framework emphasizing non-westernized medicine

  • Queer Identified

• Planned Parenthood Fulton St Clinic

  • Provides reproductive health and trans/gender expansive care

  • Provides care for individuals with MediCal or no insurance

• Stephanie Renee, Trans-Affirming Electrolysis

  • Provides hair removal specifically for trans and gender expansive folks, is affirming of LGBTIA+ people

  • Electrolysis prior to gender-affirming surgeries

  • Located in En Las Nubes Spa, a queer-owned business in Tower

  • Is ‘out of network’ with Blue Shield and Kaiser; you may be able to be reimbursed through insurance

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• Kaiser Norcal Gender-Affirming Care Pathway

  • Kaiser provides gender affirming care through a pre-built pathway for those covered by their insurance.