transgender person with a respiratory complaint being subjected to an unnecessary genital exam while trainees observed.
Surveys show how widespread such discrimination can be.
Lunn, an assistant professor of medicine in nephrology at Stanford University in California, cited the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, which found a third of transgender people who saw a health care provider in the prior year had at least one negative experience, such as being verbally harassed or refused treatment.
A 2014 report by the advocacy group Lambda Legal found more than half of lesbian, gay or bisexual survey respondents and 70% of transgender people had experienced discrimination while seeking health care.
The consequences can be life-threatening. “If you’re never showing up to a provider’s office because you’re discriminated against every time you go there, then that hypertension that you have might never be
