"I Don't Think This Is Theoretical; This Is Our Lives": How Erasure Impacts Health Care for Transgender People

Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 348-361

  Bauer, Greta R ^a   Hammond, Rebecca ^a   Travers, Robb ^a   Kaay, Matthias ^a   Hohenadel, Karin M ^a   Boyce, Michelle ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

cisnormativity; erasure; health care access; marginalization; social exclusion; transgender; transphobia; transsexual

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TRANSSEXUALISM;

FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; ONTARIO; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 69249240294     PISSN: 10553290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jana.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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