How D.C. Hospitals Fail Trans Patients
Posted by Amanda Hess on Jul. 8, 2010 at 10:47 am
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2010/07/08/how-d-c-hospitals-fail-trans-patients/Two years ago, Roberta, a 59-year-old Arlington County resident, reported to Virginia Hospital Center for a breast-cancer screening. "There's a man here to have a mammogram!" a clinician announced across the room when she arrived for her appointment.
Roberta is not a man—she's a transgender woman who began publicly transitioning from male to female six years ago. And like any woman, she requires regular mammograms for the breasts she developed through hormone therapy. "Technically, they know what they're doing, and they're really, really good," Roberta says of the hospital's staff. But when it comes to treating transgender patients with care, "they're clueless."
