Transgender Americans often face subtle discrimination, outright hostility and ill-informed medical professionals in their interactions with the health-care system, according to a poll by The Post and KFF, a nonprofit focused on national health issues.
Hans Dirkmaat knew the nurse practitioner was ill-suited to care for transgender people when they had to explain what top surgery was.
Dirkmaat was wary of taking testosterone because of a heightened risk of cardiovascular complications. Their motherBut that same nurse practitioner declined to prescribe medication to treat their high cholesterol because it could create pregnancy complications. The fact that Dirkmaat is married to aonly authorize the pills if Dirkmaat were to undergo testosterone treatment.The climate for transgender people in Nashville was starting to feel more unsafe, they said.
He didn’t want to go to just any doctor, but one familiar with treating transgender patients. He had had negative experiences with doctors who were quick to blame the hormone therapy for mundane medical conditions, including one who“That’s the first thing we’re going to try? Not like, I don’t know, a skin cream?” Scott said.
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