Trans people are humiliated by healthcare system
From needless psychological inquiry to picking up a prescription, humiliation is common for trans people
o CL Minou
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guardian.co.uk, Monday 29 November 2010 14.30 GMT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/29/trans-people-humiliated-healthcare-system"Take off your robe," the doctor told me. I steeled myself to be naked in front of another person for the last time with the body I was born with. I hoped that it would prove to be the final humiliation I'd have to suffer.
Most people who have gone through, or are even thinking of going through, a gender transition have a doctor story. I've heard and shared more than a few myself; many of us have more than one. They are often stories of frustration and of anger at a system that demands the impossible from people already in impossible situations. Some are darkly humorous, making light of what seemed too awful to bear at the time. Some tell of horrors in a matter-of-fact way, making the unbearable almost unexceptional. In short, they are exactly like just about every medical story you've ever heard, from the frustration of a late-night emergency room to the pluck of your hospital-bound friend.
