The Health Needs Of Transgender Individuals Within Canada

Regarding access to healthcare, transgender individuals often face the most obstructive barriers when attempting to receive care. Whether they are seeking access to hormones, therapy, general health services, reproductive healthcare, or specialty healthcare, transgender patients typically cannot get what they need without jumping through many hoops or hiding their identities. This occurs especially so in cases of intersecting identities -- where an individual is not just transgender, but is transgender and a person of color, disabled, gay, indigenous, undocumented, poor, etc. These intersecting identities interact in multifaceted ways to produce even more barriers for trans individuals seeking healthcare due to healthcare provider bias, insurance requirements, and doctors’ general unwillingness to help coupled with inaccessibility founded on racism, transphobia, homophobia, mental illness stigmatization, etc.

The transgender population often have complicated medical needs and encounter numerous health disparities including discrimination, lack of access to quality health care and social stigma. Some health disparities include various chronic diseases, cancers, as well as mental health issues (Vanderbilt University, 2017). Transgender individuals are at increased risk of HIV infection with their rates being reported “over four times the national average of HIV infection, with higher rates among transgender people of color (Grant, Mottet, Tanis, 2011).” In addition, they usually do not have health insurance (Makadon, 2017) and have a lower probability of preventative cancer screenings in transgender men (AMSA, 2017).

Here in Canada, this issue has been brought forward in both communities and provincial level of concerns. To take a look closer to home, the city of Toronto had witnessed the complexity of this issue in the past years. A Toronto transgender teen who identifies as a male, was banned from using his high school boys restroom, and was forced to leave school grounds and search for a public bathroom at a gas station. Concerns were mentioned for the safety of Spencer, and also how he felt uncomfortable being forced to use the women’s restroom; however, several parents and students agreed with how the school was taking action to this problem. After a petition was enacted by fellow supportive students, Spencer was allowed to freely use the restrooms at his high school.

When people want to be theirself, doesn 't everyone deserve that chance at that much freedom? According to the national LGBTQ Task Force transgender people are not that lucky when it comes to the demographics of social media. On CNN website there 's an article that discusses how transgender people are twice as likely to be unemployed and four times more likely to live in poverty compared with the general population and these disparities are much greater for transgender black and latina woman said Emanuela Grinberg writer for CNN.

I would like to have the opportunity to increase the well-being and independence of patients, so they feel like they can live their life to the fullest. Just because things become difficult doesn’t make them impossible. I want patients to experience the satisfaction when they conquer their own goal; whether that is standing long enough to cook their own meal, or being able to dress themselves without any assistance. I aspire to be part of a career that is genuinely rewarding and humbling.

In conducting this investigation, the author utilized “a larger ethno- graphic study…of self-identified trans people of color in the USA… (along with) 31 formal interviews, (and) hundreds of hours of informal interviews” (5). The interviewees were 12 trans women and 19 trans men, aging from 21-52, ethnically diverse and all with some “college education” (5). The topics

accessing care (NHRA, 2014). To this end, taking into consideration rural locales, and their unique (or lack of) public health offerings and a prevalence of mental health disorders (due to locale and military service), I would recommend, like Rishel & Hartnett (2015) that there be an additional 6,000 mental health practitioners so as to help meet the urgent needs of rural veterans.

The group I will be researching is Transgenders. Transgenders have been being oppressed since they first began to open up about themselves. They have always been judged based on what’s seen and not who they are. Transgenders are human beings like any of the rest of us, they just rather have a different gender than the one they were born as. This group will overcome oppression.

The issue of transsexual homelessness and health has been subjected to debate in the recent discussions that underline the paradigms of safety. The people who identify with a gender that is distinct from which is assigned to them at birth are at a greater risk for being subjected to social isolation, emotional and physical trauma, infectious disease, chemical dependency, discrimination, infectious disease, and the limited access housing, employment opportunities, as well as healthcare. Homelessness is the compounding factor to all these risks facing transsexual individuals (Rew, Whittaker, Taylor‐Seehafer Smith, 2005). A misunderstanding of gender variance has resulted in many having negative attitude towards transsexual individuals to the extent of rendering them homeless. The analysis in this paper is aligned to the issue of homeless among the transsexual persons by investigating the entire spectrum of the issue. In a general analysis the paper will highlight the extraordinary conditions that lead to transsexual individuals experiencing homelessness besides the same reasons that the other ‘normal’ individuals are rendered homeless- the inability to afford housing, addiction and mental health problems, being abused physically and being estranged by their own families (Rew, Whittaker, Taylor‐Seehafer Smith, 2005). This paper covers the issue of homelessness among transgender in the realms of the different ages, the psychological effects, and the reasons why they are

In society today, “There are some 1.5 million trans people in the U.S. - roughly 0.5% of the population” (Steinmetz 40). With the percent of transgender people being so low, there is still misunderstanding and discrimination against transgender people. Originally barring Jenna from the Miss Universe Canada competition was discrimination and violating her civil rights. From the video, we know the Canada recognizes Jenna as woman. Why does being a naturally born woman matter? Other contestants can undergo plastic surgery to enhance their looks and chances of winning; thus, Jenna did not have an upper hand on the other contestants. In her interview she explained, “I took estrogen, which helped me develop my own breasts” (1:56 - 2:01), and went through painful surgeries to be who she felt she really was. Seeing that Jenna is a woman, she

During our first member meeting, we had a guest speaker, who provided insight and a better understanding of the transgender community. Also, our common reader; “Trans Bodies, Trans Selves” provided insight and knowledge of the transgender community. The Mini Honors Panel opened many doors and left no questions unanswered for the members of the Michigan Region. Volunteering at the Pride in the Park event connected us to the community. Reaching out to the transgender community helped to better understand and develop our Honors in Action Project including self-awareness for individuals in relation to the transgender issues.

In a lot of places around the world more and more people are coming out as “Transgender.” The term transgender means that the person’s gender identity does not correspond with the gender they were assigned as having at birth. From personally having a transgender boyfriend I have since realized that these people experience a lot of discrimination in and from society. Many people simply just do not understand what the term transgender means and they see it as someone just “wants to be a man” or “wants to be a woman.” While there may be people who present it this way, it is more so that the individual just “feels” different, and “feels” as if they are “in the wrong body.” Some people experience this feeling at a young age as my boyfriend did in his elementary age. We live in a world who put these people down for being who they truly are, and no human being wants or needs that.

First and foremost, it is unclear in this situation if this patient is genetically male or female. The only thing that is stated in this learning is that “she…becoming a woman is all she wanted.” So, it is pretty unclear that if she is already a woman who is transgender and has only wanted to become a woman that is simply unclear.

For the topic of the argumentative essay assignment, I will be presenting my stance on transgenderism. As a result of all the controversy surrounding the transformation of Bruce Jenner to Kaitlyn Jenner, it is evident that the transgendered theme is one that is growing in the present day culture. With coming out of Bruce Jenner and a new reality TV series featuring a transgendered girl, I found myself very intrigued with subject. Therefore, there are several areas of transgenderism that I hope to explore during the assignment, which include: scientific research or proof that a person is born with the wrong gender, transgender law pertaining to if the transgendered are legally required to disclose their original assigned gender, and the psychiatric

Furthermore, Spade, like Stryker, does not hesitate to discuss the fact that modern civilization is sexually oppressive, requiring that all individuals "adhere to two narrowly defined gender categories" (Spade 32). Spade argues that individuals are "afforded or denied rights and privileges based on their membership in, and performance of" (Spade 32) their birth-assigned gender. Spade's research manifests how the norms instituted by the gender binary regulate hetero-normative culture and therefore polices who may undergo sex reassignment surgery and who may not. The medical field's preservation of the gender binary "forces [transgender individuals] to rigidly conform [themselves] to medical [professionals'] opinions" (Spade 28) regarding what is masculine and what is feminine, and often coerces transgender individuals "to produce narratives of struggle around those identities that mirror the diagnostic criteria" (Spade 28-29) of gender dysphoria. In the same way that queer individuals are discriminated against through the continued defense of the gender binary, transgender individuals are also discriminated against. To view sex reassignment surgery through the lens that it is only permitted through a diagnosis of a mental condition is to ignore gender expression that is not binary. By “[denying] access to medical procedures to those who fail to perform normative binary gender for their health care providers” (Spade 18), the natural right of transgender individuals to live a