Commentary: Why is it so hard to get health care as a trans cancer patient?
by Lex Rivers, Los Angeles Times
Jun 23, 2022
3 minutes
Nobody can know what it is like to be a cancer patient without actually having cancer. Before I was diagnosed, I had proximity to cancer patients and experiences in health care that I thought gave me insight. In some ways they did. Yet although I had previously experienced discrimination for being transgender, nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to endure as a trans cancer patient.
The abusive treatment I have experienced makes clear
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