Researchers conducted an educative interaction with resident trainee physicians and found that by providing education about the transgender crisis, the residents' knowledge, and eagerness to assist with therapy increased significantly. The term transgender is used by those who feel comfortable in a gender that they were not assigned by birth. The term broadly includes cross-dressers (those who wear clothing of the other sex some of the time), genderqueer people (those who feel that they belong to either both genders or neither gender) and Transsexuals (people who take hormones and have sex-reassignment surgery (SRS) in order to transition to a different sex).
Transgender people have particular health disparities as compared to the overall population. Disparities vary in individuals, but the health issues mostly originate from substance abuse, suicidal tendency, violence and…
