Clinician's Commentary on Figueiredo et al.

Improving “Life Chances”: Surveying the Anti-Transgender Backlash, and Offering a Transgender Equity Impact Assessment Tool for Policy Analysis

“…95 Despite progress, such as the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care that establish guidelines for practitioners to provide gender-affirming care, 96 T&N individuals are 2.34 times more likely to be denied care across their lifetime compared to their cisgender LGB counterparts. 97 T&N adults who have experienced discrimination from medical professionals may withhold information or postpone care, 98 and fear of negative experiences has led some T&N individuals to self-treat 99 or to pass as cisgender to avoid discrimination. 100 Another important consideration is that health care practitioners report feeling ill-equipped to serve the T&N patients.…”