Stigma and healthcare access among transgender and gender-diverse people: A qualitative meta-synthesis.

Extant literature on this topic is limited in the nursing literature. This qualitative meta-synthesis illuminates TGD identity stigma-related experiences using a socio-ecological framework. While stigma is often experienced at the individual and interpersonal levels, oppressive systems that value cisgender cultural norms over other gender identities allow structural-level stigma to occur. Nurses are morally, ethically and professionally responsible for challenging systems that create and sustain stigma. Understanding how stigma is experienced when accessing care can help deliver critical information needed to improve healthcare access among TGD people and other historically oppressed communities.