Atención de salud de personas transgéneros para médicos no especialistas en Chile

Abstract

Atención de salud de personas transgéneros para médicos no especialistas en Chile antonio zapata pizarro 1,3 , Karina díaz díaz 1,a , luis barra aHumada 2 , lorena maureira sales 4,b , Jeanette linares moreno 1 , FranCo zapata pizarro 4 Healthcare of transgenders by non-specialists in Chile The health care demand for transgenders has increased in Chile and worldwide. However, in Chile health care professionals are not trained to understand and face this problem. We herein review issues that should be considered in the training of non-specialist physicians to provide health care to transgenders, issues about terminology of body reassignment treatments and gender identity and the way Chilean professionals should deal with transgender persons.

Adherencia a las conductas preventivas de la COVID-19 en mujeres trans colombianas

“…Estos aspectos pueden estar relacionados con la resiliencia que caracteriza a las mujeres trans, quienes en Colombia han estado expuestas a diversas inequidades y vulneración de derechos de forma sistemática y con profundas raíces histórico-sociales. También es posible que eviten el contagio del virus, al ser conscientes de las pocas posibilidades de acceder a atención médica humanizada y transafirmativa (Domínguez et al, 2018;Kline, 2020;White & Fontenot, 2019;Zapata Pizarro et al, 2019).…”

Towards a “transitioning”: Biographical clues on gender transition, malaise, and health services in Chile

“…Recent studies estimate that nearly 80,000 transgender people live in Chile, with approximately 30 new patients requesting medical care each year 8 . The "T Survey", conducted by the NGO OTD 23 , drew attention to the absence of basic epidemiological and demographic data and characterized the Chilean trans population through a 315-person sample.…”

“…psychological assistance, hormone therapy, and surgery -display substantially improved quality of life and psychological well-being 4,27 , the "T Survey" 23 revealed that only 22.9% of the trans population report having received medical assistance between ages 11 and 25. As previously noted, while the MINSAL 26 has launched a clinical guideline and two orders to encourage adequate and timely care for trans people, the implementation of these actions has been poor, even after the promulgation of the gender identity law 7,8 . In 2018, the first polyclinic in the Metropolitan Region and similar centers at three other hospitals opened to the trans community.…”

“…While several studies focused on the trans population have been conducted internationally [4][5][6] , few have explored the interactions between healthcare services and trans people's lived experiences around gender transition in Chile 7,8 . In this article, we seek to analyze how the interactions between the trans population and the Chilean healthcare system shapes specific processes of malaise associated with gender transition.…”

Adaptation of the Adult Preventive Medicine Examination to the Trans Population

“…El sexo se define según las características biológicas del individuo al momento de nacer donde los recién nacidos son asignados como hombres o mujeres según su sexo anatómico, en el caso que no tenga un sexo definido se usa actualmente el concepto intersexual. A su vez el género se refiere a la experiencia personal interna de sentirse masculino, femenino o andrógeno, según el contexto cultural (identidad de género), Si la persona se identifica con el sexo asignado al nacimiento, se la considera como una persona cisgénero, si no lo hace, se la considera transgénero 16,21,22 .…”