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Transgender people frequently experience various forms of discrimination and harassment in their daily lives, in gaining access to housing, work, and health services. The victims of psychological and physical violence report permanently about barriers to care whether searching preventive medicine, routine or emergency care, or special transgender-related services. The widespread disrespect for the health needs of gender non-conforming people restrains them from searching and receiving quality healthcare. The following possible recommendations of this synopsis paper should be of prime importance in alleviating the provision of healthcare to transgender people.

Gender non-conforming people face essential barriers when seeking healthcare services, from ignorance to the refusal of care provision, from verbal to sexual and physical abuse. These events have a cumulative impact on transgender people and their behavior, exposing them to the increased risk of suicide attempts, HIV infection, alcohol/drug abuse, and smoking. Anti-transgender bias in the healthcare system has dire consequences for transgender people who might need urgent help. Therefore, healthcare providers must completely integrate transgender care into their professional standards. Moreover, this must be also a part of a wider commitment to the cultural competence around class, age, and race. Those healthcare providers that assail or assault the gender non-conforming patients and have a grudge against them should be held accountable according to the general standards of their profession. Ending violence against transgender communities should be a priority, considering the fact that it has an adverse effect on both parties –healthcare providers and their transgender patients (American Psychological Association, 2015). Federal and state agencies should develop public education programs and trainings to educate the long-term healthcare providers regarding the rights of transgender communities as well as their identities, vulnerabilities, and special needs. Appropriate education should be a priority for all healthcare providers and it must include all staff members regardless of their position, from frontline intake staff to physicians. Furthermore, healthcare providers should allow an option for the self-identification of gender identity where their transgender patients could indicate a preferred first name and partnership/relationship/family status. All these procedures create a supportive and welcoming environment of healthcare institutions for their gender non-conforming patients.

An inadequate access to healthcare is also complicated by the insurance issues, where the major part of insurance policies does not cover transgender-related services such as sex-affirming surgery and hormones. Thus, in most cases, patients have to work multiple jobs to earn enough money to pay for therapy out-of-pocket. There is also a strong disappointment with the major part of insurance companies that do not often understand the significant need for medical services specifically for transgender patients (Coleman, 2011). Very few insurance providers manage to provide such patients with the ability to overcome insurance barriers, for example, by providing hormones at wholesale cost. Both private and public insurance system should cover the better half of transgender-related care since it is crusial to basic healthcare and is urgently needed by transgender people. The rates of HIV infection, alcohol and drug abuse, smoking, and attempted suicide among transgender people signal about the significant need for transgender-specific prevention programs as well as transgender-sensitive healthcare, health education, and programs that could be covered by insurance policies.

Increased research as well as qualitative and quantitative information on potential health disparities for gender non-conforming people, healthcare access, and utilization patterns are of great importance. They allow an accurate assessment of the degree of quality of healthcare services, provided to transgender individuals (Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, 2013). Special additional information on the health outcomes of gender non-conforming patients is urgently needed. These data should include health studies as well as other researches that consider transgender people as a demographic category. Finally, various sexual health issues should include separate categories for both transgender men and women. Consequently, various issues could be tracked and researched accurately and in a timely manner.

The provided recommendations and possible changes are aimed at breaking the barriers in the access to healthcare for transgender people. Healthcare professionals ought to change their anti-transgender attitudes that discourage such individuals from realizing that they have equal opportunities and rights. This is the base of all changes and recommendations for the system of healthcare. At the same time, the attitudes of healthcare providers towards transgender people should be addressed from within the healthcare system.