Transgender patients outed by the health-care system
'I will die of pneumonia before being called Mr. once more in the emergency room'
By Max Harrold, THE GAZETTE December 13, 2011 7:36 AM
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Transgender+patients+outed+health+care+system/5854368/story.htmlMONTREAL - For most sick people in a doctor's waiting room, a walk-in clinic or the hospital emergency, the etiquette of the receptionist, nurse and doctor is not likely the top priority. Getting better is.
But for people in the years-long process of transitioning genders, the name called out and the pronouns used can be the difference between medical treatment and psychological torture.
Many Quebec health-care workers routinely out transsexuals by arguing in public about their name and sex as indicated on the medicare card, advocates for trans people say.
