Document Type
Portfolio
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
More recently, we have seen an increase in awareness of the transgender community nationwide. Despite the transgender community starting to receive representation in popular entertainment media, politics, and within our own localities, there is still a large number of people who have negative perspectives and beliefs about the transgender community and their rights. The transgender community is under constant scrutiny and has to battle for basic human rights on a daily basis. Our politicians are trying to revoke the rights of transgender individuals to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity as opposed to their sex assigned at birth, prohibit transgender individuals from serving in the military, trying to allow health insurance companies to not cover transgender affirming healthcare procedures and medications, and many other various ways to harm the transgender community. Working within the healthcare system, there are a large number of people who are uneducated on how to work with the transgender community in an affirming way and providing the best quality of care. They constantly misgender or use dead names with transgender patients, refuse to provide scripts for hormone therapy, refusing to write letters for transgender patients to receive gender reassignment surgeries, and purposefully providing inadequate care as a form of discrimination. This portfolio aims to identify methods of education for healthcare staff and advocate for more readily available resources that provide transgender affirming healthcare.
