Transgender Medical History

Health care providers need to be sensitive to TG persons. Here's an article teaching how to be sensitive.

https://providers.bedsider.org/articles/taking-a-transgender-inclusive-sexual-health-history

I totally agree .

Trans need kindness and compassion , not fear and hatred .

We are human first and trans second , but trans always .

T.

I couldn’t agree more. It’s actually awful visiting many medical facilities as trans. There is such a disconnect between it all.

An interesting article. I think the author didn‘t mention a very important aspect. Every human being who has a difference between the gender of the body at birth and the gender identity is unique. There is a big range. Binary, non-binary, different states of transition. Everybody has very individual wishes and needs. In my opinion it‘s the most important issue to respect the individual gender identity. It can be realy humiliating if a person feel that a health provider (doctor, psychlogist) has unconscious assumptions with a certain bias. It is possible and necessary to avoid questions about the genitals and sexual activity if the patient doesn‘t want it and doesn‘t need it. My gender identity is male and my body is male. There are no female genitals anymore and I have a penis and testicles. It would be very humiliating if a doctor asks me if I‘m pregnat or want to become pregnant or if I need Contraceptives. The most important aspects are respect, listening to the patient, explaining objectively and asking only what is realy necessary.

Blatant failure to respect trans patients is appallingly common, even when the care needed has nothing to do with their gender identity. It's heartbreaking to know our daughter was turned away repeatedly when she broke her ankle, by facilities that were "too busy" but took patients arriving after she did. The third urgent care facility finally took her, but she'd been hopping around with a broken bone for two hours by then.

I have no personal experience, so cannot truly comment on this discussion. I completely agree that there should be no distinction in how a person is treated based on their preferred gender - whether that's as assigned at birth or changed through choice.

The only situation in which I can see that a transgender person's "birth gender" could come into play, is if they have not had reassignment surgery, or that surgery is only "external". In that case, I have read (and a long time ago had a friend who'd not had full surgery and had issues) that the normal birth gender-specific cancers can still affect the person; so they might need to be screened for those based on their birth gender (i.e. cervical cancer screening for FTM and prostate cancer for MTF); which can be very difficult to discuss and undergo. In these situations, the medical provider must take the patient's views into account and treat them respectfully.