Andrea Morales/NYT/Redux/Eyevine
DOCTORS are failing their transgender patients. In the UK, an estimated 1 in 5 general practitioners are refusing transgender people treatments such as hormone therapy, said James Barrett of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists last week. “Some are remarkably frank, and say: ‘I’m not doing this as it is against my deeply held religious principles’.”
The problem isn’t confined to the UK. Surveys carried out in…
No excuse for doctors who refuse to treat transgender people
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