Name: 【TED】Kristie Overstreet: What doctors should know about gender identity (What doctors should know about gender identity | Kristie Overstreet)
Uploaded: 2018-10-23T20:42:31.000Z
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About six months into my career as a therapist,

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I was working at a drug and alcohol rehab facility.

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I got a call from one of the nurses down at the detox unit.

She asked me to come down and assess one of the new patients

So I went down to the unit and had the pleasure of meeting Anne.

Anne's a transgender female, and as her and I started talking,

she was sharing with me about what brought her into treatment,

and she began to tell me that she didn't fear coming into rehab

Her fear was that the doctors that were going to be treating her

She then told me about this ongoing pain that she has experienced her whole life

of being assigned male but knowing she's female.

And what she meant by that is, when she was born,

Many years passed and the feelings that she was feeling

and she knew she had to come out to her family.

And when she did, it didn't go over so well.

Her parents said, "Absolutely not. You're not a girl.

This is not how we raised you. We don't know what you're thinking.

So Anne then found herself on the streets and in and out of homeless shelters,

and it's here where she started using drugs and alcohol

She told me about her journey of being in and out of hospitals and rehabs

and when she did, the health care providers and doctors

wouldn't use the correct female name or pronouns.

You see, when I was studying to become a therapist,

I wasn't taught how to work with transgender patients.

I had no idea these would be the patients I'd be working with.

But the more I worked with Anne and other patients like Anne,

and that was to make sure that the transgender community

The more I looked into this, I saw how this very real fear

of violence, discrimination and this lack of acceptance

caused so many of these patients to turn to alcohol and drugs.

of when these patients were seeking medical care

and how a lot of their medical needs were ignored.

I had the pleasure of meeting Leah a few years back.

She's a female and she has a wife and a child.

See, Leah was also assigned male at birth

and she knew since she was a young child that she was not a male,

She hid it from herself and from everyone she knew,

especially from her wife, until the age of 50.

She was like, I can't keep living like this.

She was extremely scared to tell her wife.

"This is unacceptable, I want a divorce, get out"?

She said, "I love you regardless of who you are.

and she made the decision that she wanted to medically transition,

and she was interested in being assessed for hormone replacement therapy,

So she made an appointment with her doctor.

She arrived on the day of her appointment early.

put the name correctly down there and waited patiently.

A little bit of time passed and a nurse called her back to the exam room.

When she got back there, she took a deep breath,

She extended her hand to the doctor and said, "Hi, I'm Leah."

The doctor looked at her, didn't shake her hand and said,

I've known this my whole life, I've hid it from everyone,

My wife's supportive, I can financially afford it,

Please consider me, and let's evaluate me for HRT."

The doctor said, "We can't do anything today.

If her doctor treated her this way, how would the rest of the world treat her?

and second, when he heard she was transgender,

all he cared about was getting an HIV test and ending the appointment.

He didn't even ask her any other questions.

See, I can understand where Leah's coming from,

because the years that I've worked with the community,

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