Doctors Want To Learn More About Treating Transgender Patients, Survey Shows

These negative experiences ? which ranged from verbal harassment, physical or sexual assault and refusal of treatment, to having to educate doctors about transgender people ? degrade the overall standard of care that transgender people receive, no matter what health care needs they may have. In fact, 23 percent of survey respondents said they skipped seeing a doctor, even though they needed to, for fear of mistreatment.