World Professional Association for Transgender Health, has dealt with a doctor so hostile he refused to look Green in the eye.
And although he’s been able to find good doctors, too, he knows the affronts other transgender people have endured.
Discrimination is not limited to transgender patients. Gay, lesbian, bisexual and other sexual or gender minority people encounter doctors who are ill-informed, ask inappropriate questions or refuse to treat them.
“We hear stories very frequently from people going into a provider’s office and having an inappropriate encounter,” said Dr. Mitchell Lunn, co-director of The PRIDE Study, the first long-term national health study of people of all LGBTQ identities, for which Green is a volunteer ambassador.
Green gives the example of health care workers who refuse to call people by their preferred name. Lunn has heard of a