Transgender Care Experiences, Barriers, and Recommendations for Improvement in a Large Integrated Health Care System in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Transgender individuals who pursue gender affirmation medical procedures often need to navigate a complex health system and interact with multiple health care providers in primary and specialty care. We sought to better understand patient, provider, and system level barriers to transgender care in a large integrated health care system in California.

Methods

Three 90-min focus groups were conducted with 13 transgender individuals who received specialty care between April and August 2018 in Kaiser Permanente Southern California.

Results

Participants cited common adversities such as misgendering and system-wide insensitivity during health care encounters and low levels of understanding of their transgender experience among primary care providers. Provider-patient

SUBMITTER: Ling Grant DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10551753 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature