GRSJ 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Adolescent Medicine, Trans Man, Physician Assistant
14 Sep 2018
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"managing uncertainty: a grounded theory of stigma in transgender health. Care encounters" - tonia poteat, danielle german, deanna kerrigan. Stigma and discrimination can severely affect transgender health care --> creates health care disparities. There is a lot of unknowns and uncertainties about transgender care, as it is excluded from medical training. Medical provider has interpersonal stigma --> reinforces medical provider power and medical power (leads to inequality) Stigma: a social process of "othering, blaming and shaming" that leads to status loss and discrimination. Discrimination: process by which stigmatized groups are devalued through the exercise of social, cultural, economic and political power. Structural + institutional discrimination have both intentional and un-intentional practices --> leads to stigmatization. Generally the public have negative attitudes towards transgender population. Stigmatization of transgender people have lead to depression, suicide and hiv. Transgender people experience barriers to health care --> less likely to be insured.
