So one to three percent of the
population are transgender individuals.
Most of the time, you've probably met
transgender people, you just didn't know.
50% of patients will either consider or
attempt suicide over the course of their
life and one of the main issues is
access and lack of care. With respect to
the medical community coming around and
embracing the transgender community, it's
slow-going, it's still ongoing. A lot of
transgender people and the people in the
community felt like they were being
experimented upon, or stigmatized, or not
treated well, or even wholly
ignored these patients actually need a
broader community of support to get them
through something that is actually quite
deadly. These individuals are living
their lives as part of our community,
should we ignore their health issues
because they make up a very small
minority of the population? It is
important for us as providers to be able
to serve everybody. We are just at the
beginning of understanding gender,
fluidity of gender, and gender dysphoria.
It's wonderful that people want to
educate themselves, to learn more, and all
that is extremely plausible, but, at the
end of the day, there will be some things that
we don't fully understand. I don't know
the lives that they've come from and
it's not for me, and, I believe, it's not
really for all of us to judge who we are
inside of ourselves. So we're here to
help them and maybe you could show them
some kindness. Meet some transgender
people, get to know some people who may
not be quite as black and white as most
of us were raised. It's a human being
we're talking about and trying to help a
person live the fullest, happiest, most
productive, most functional, most
wonderful life they can live is what
we're all about.
 
