I was just discussing this the other day with a good friend of mine who is a recently board-certified psychiatrist in the hospitaler specialty.

We were talking about LGBTQ issues in general and a few trans issues in particular.

I was a bit surprised by how little he seemed to know about some issues I take for granted.

He’s a nice guy, very progressive, and totally supportive of queer people, but his technical knowledge is almost non-existent.

He explained that the medical training he received about anything LGBTQ was limited to a few hours of a seminar several years ago in medical school.

Even though he did his residency in a very respectable program and his hospitaler fellowship in a highly prestigious program, every bit of medical knowledge he has about LGBTQ people boils down to a couple lectures he barely remembers.

He and I agree that that’s a systemic problem the medical field needs to work on hard.