Implications for practice and research

• Educating nurses on equitable interventions can provide them with the tools necessary to provide holistic, non-bias care to the transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) clients.

• Employing a mixed-methodology study would provide a better understanding of the extent of the phenomenon experienced by the TGD population in the healthcare system.

Context

The preferred reporting items, 12 peered-reviewed papers were retained about the phenomenon: ‘Stigma experienced in accessing healthcare by the TGD population.’1 The stigmatising criterias used by this study were: labelling, stereotyping, separation, status loss and discrimination that occurs together in a power situation.2 The author uses …