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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina
versión impresa ISSN 0120-0011
Resumen
CAMPO-ARIAS, Adalberto; OVIEDO, Heidi Celina y HERAZO, Edwin. Stigma and discrimination against transgender health professional. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2014, vol.62, n.1, pp.41-45. ISSN 0120-0011. https://doi.org/10.15446/revfacmed.v62n1.43693.
Background. It is common stigma, prejudice and discrimination against sexual minorities (LGBTI) in all contexts. No research has shown the attitude towards a transgender nurse. Objective. To explore attitudes towards transgender person performing nursing care in a group of on line reader of a nationwide newspaper in Colombia. Materials and methods. It was carried out a qualitative study from the perspective of grounded theory, with comments recorded from Internet page of the newspaper over a story about the exercise of a transgender nurse. Results. The most comments were negative. The forum participants felt that LGBTI health professionals represented a danger to society. Four categories emerged: they are carriers and transmitters of diseases (including sexually transmitted infections), sexual predators, lack of professionalism and performance poor clinical practice. Conclusions. Newspaper readers show a negative attitude towards a transgender nurse. It is inferred that stigma, prejudice and discrimination against LGBTI persons extend to health professionals. They need to explore this topic with other research designs.
Palabras clave : Prejudice; Attitude; Transgendered Persons; Nursing Staff; Qualitative Research.