Sunday, 20 October 2019

You will behave like a woman: Transgender people risking death to avoid discriminatory healthcare

You will behave like a woman: Transgender people risking death to avoid discriminatory healthcare

More than a decade ago, Brenda Appleton was rushed to the emergency department of a major hospital in terrible pain, with a compound fracture in her leg.

Only afterwards did her partner reveal that during the course of the evening, all the staff had trooped into the ward to “have a look at the tranny”...

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