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How to access basic healthcare when your identity is seen as problematic

I am transgender and every doctor I see either refuses to treat me or acts like I am a medical curiosity and I just want normal healthcare without having to educate or defend myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Healthcare systems designed around normative assumptions exclude and dehumanize those who exist outside accepted categories.

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