Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health, contributing author Laura A. Jacobs wrote, “Every trans-identified person I’ve ever met has experienced it; a medical interaction during which we felt fetishized or insulted, when a provider used insensitive or inappropriate language, where a professional pried for information not relevant to the clinical issue.
Rather than encouraging a bond, these moments only amplified the resistance.”So many queer and trans people I know have had a negative past experience with a health care provider because of our queer or trans identity.