Health care to transgeneric population in a mental health nursing
International Journal of Development Research
Health care to transgeneric population in a mental health nursing
Received 26th April, 2020; Received in revised form 11th May, 2020; Accepted 14th June, 2020; Published online 30th July, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Guilherme Silva de Mendonça et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Historically, the division based only on biological sex is old, this perception has changed over time and across cultures. The objective of this work is to report the experiences of logistics in the hospitalization of transgender and transvestite people in a mixed mental health ward of a large public hospital in the city of Uberlândia. This is a descriptive study, type of experience report, which describes the activities developed in the face of hospitalization of transgender and transvestite patients in a mixed psychiatric ward. In the hospitalization of transgender and transvestites the use of the social name puts them in direct opposition to the biological sex they were born and in the infirmary they would be allocated in rooms with people from that specific gender with shared use of bathrooms, causing discomfort for the specific public of the bathroom and transgender and transvestite (s).It is observed that these patients have great mental suffering in face of the heterosexual cultural pattern that labels sexual orientations and gender identities.