title: 'Competent persons who can treat you with competence, as simple as that' - an interview study with transgender people on their experiences of meeting health care professionals.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  With a focus on sexual health and rights, this study describes how transgender people experience meetings with health care professionals.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Transgender people face prejudice and discrimination worldwide. Little is known of their experiences in sexual health-promoting settings.
  
  
  METHODS
  Within a descriptive design, 20 persons aged 18-74 and identifying as transgender and nonbinary were interviewed. The results were analysed with constructivist grounded theory.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Disrespect among health care professionals is the core category connected to the experiences in the result; transgender people experience estrangement, expectations and eviction in different sexual health-promoting settings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Transgender knowledge needs to be increased in general, in both specialised transgender health care and many other health care settings, to prevent transgender peoples' experiences of estrangement. Moreover, an increased knowledge of, and respect for, sexual health and rights is needed to prevent transgender peoples' exposure to gender binary, cis- and heteronormative expectations. In addition, access to sexual health care is essential following gender-confirmatory care as well to avoid transgender peoples' experiences of eviction from the health care system.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses have an important role to play in striving for equity and justice within health care. This study describes how health care professionals appear to be disrespectful and suggestions of how this can be avoided are made.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.
authors.forename: Malin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lindroth
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses'; D060728:Reproductive Health; D013548:Sweden; D063106:Transgender Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: access to sexual health care; discrimination; health care professionals; heteronormative; nonbinary people; sexual health and rights; transgender people