Trans Cancer Experience
The Transgender Cancer Experience: A Conversation Between an Oncologist and a Transmasculine Individual on Navigating the Healthcare System

Released: November 29, 2022

Expiration: November 28, 2023

Yee Won Chong
Yee Won Chong, BA
Norma Steiner
Norma Steiner, MD

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In this episode, activist and breast cancer survivor Yee Won Chong shares his experience as a transmasculine person navigating the healthcare system with Norma Steiner, MD, a gynecologic oncologist, who in turn offers her perspective on caring for patients across the gender spectrum. Topics include:

  • 4 aspects of transgender care: emotional, social, medical, legal
  • Getting language right and how to gracefully recover from fumbles
  • Sensitively approaching ongoing cancer care in transmasculine and transfeminine individuals
  • Handling billing and charting challenges when caring for transgender patients
  • Ideas for institutional change to improve healthcare for transgender individuals