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Question: Discuss About the Complexity Their Gender Identity? Answer: Introduction I have chosen Transgender as my diverse group. Transgender means people are born with complexity about their gender identity. Sometimes they behave adversely from what gender they are assignedby birth.I am from a South Asian country. I never had very clear idea about inclusion or exclusion of transgender people in my society. I have seen that they are denied basic healthcare services. People are stereotyped about them, have a stigma and for this reason transgender people are not well accepted in any society(Lgbt, 2013). Financial instability is a big reason also as education and job is not easily accessible for them. If people are reluctant then State has to demonstrate this cultural inclusion with legal aids. State has to ensure every right to them. Its a duty of a civil society also. Barriers to Healthcare access I have seen these people are denied, discriminated as our mind set up is not ready to accept their real identity. People are suffering from serious complications like HIV, depression, somatisation and they need more care like hormone therapy sometimes(Safer et al., 2016). But my previous views about transgender are not at all realistic as I have seen that there is good healthcare for transgender people here. The biggest problem to ensure good healthcare is stigma and social discrimination in daily life. So they feel afraid of availing healthcare services. To eradicate this fear, Healthcare professionals need to be trained in a way that they can handle transgender without biased view. There must be all records and insurance updated every time. Approach with positive outlook and affirmative approach can minimize their problem(Roberts Fantz, 2014). My attitude, values and beliefs I think if a healthcare service provider has heteronormative approach, then its difficult to understand the problem associated with transgender. Heteronormative people dont have any idea about gender confusion or gender related problems. They have a primitive mind set up with very few knowledge and acceptability.(Gridley et al., 2016). Generally transgender people used to feel bullying by that heteronormative person as he was asking several questions which made awkward to them among others. I am feeling bad for them now and also I realize that heteronormative approach is discriminative. I feel assaulted being discriminated by transgender people and would love to offer proper guidance. Most important thing as per my belief is sensitivity which is needed towards transgender people when they come for healthcare services. Understanding their problem in this regard can ease their dilemma. There are different people and we should have the mindset to accept everyone irrespective of any disc rimination. Otherwise these transgender people would feel hesitating to avail healthcare services and prefer to be isolated. This is harmful for any society.During last decades, there is a huge change in all LGBTIQ people and qualitative data shows improvement according to ABS and AIHW(Knight Shoveller, 2013). I had always a different thinking about transgender people as I have very little exposure in my country. In my country they are forced to lead an isolated life with basic rights. Healthcare services and education are almost denied in everywhere(Jalali Saues, 2015). So they like to confine themselves and are not so visible in society like common gender people. In school, college, offices they are not seen in my childhood. So a stigma in my sense has been developed. I couldnt even think of normal behaving in my day to day life with a transgender. But when I came to Australia, the scene is quite opposite. Here transgender is treated as normal gender people with very few discriminative cases. They are living normal life with basic facilities like study and work as normal gender people. I had little access to them which does not make me insensitive at all. I had belief of not working like others but here I experienced that Australian Government has ensured their right in every field. I can accept my transgender colleagues as I dont have any prejudice, but it is for sure that I usually took little time to adjust with this situation. My positive attitude makes situation much better and creates a sensible and trustworthy atmosphere between us. I read lots of stuffs about their healthcare problems and learn about their medical emergency with physical complications. I think inclusion of transgender in our society is the best approach whereas exclusion is not the solution. I read some novels on gender parity to understand on popular beliefs and local thoughts to reconstruct my past assumptions. I read The Diplomat of Eden Sophia French and find it very useful. It is a 2016 Goldie Winner book. Some culturally safe health carepractices People usually come from different background with different upbringing. So I feel all healthcare providers cannot give same care to their patients. They need to be aware about all problems related to transgender and their mental state with all physical problems. I think with all my inputs that mental disorders are more common. Anxiety as well as depression is very common which are generated due to exclusion and stigma in any society(Snelgrove et al., 2012). I feel these transgender people are very distressed in any society due to cultural beliefs. Due to undefined sexual orientation, they behave in different manner which is visually distinct what we apparently watch or think about them. I would like to appreciate them as their friend just like a normal guy does for a friend. I would never make them feel embarrassed for their behaviour and appearance. Culturally they are just part of any society of their ethnic group. I always prefer to learn their cultural habits like all other inhabitants. I have met a person being born as male but never felt like a man. This made that individual depressed, traumatized with ultimate efforts to commit suicide. She was down with fear and discriminations being a male but used to behave like female. The typical sense of clothing of that individual has also made people frowning over years. This mental trauma has made her psychologically unstable and landed her to mental asylum. She couldnt find a compatible sex partner followed by more complications. Now she has been suffering from HIV also. I face one more ridiculous thing that normal gender people always make fun and mockery about this group of people. Most of transgender people then have a tendency to drop out or have a gap between studies. This marginalization changes their career in difficulties and leads to financial challenges. Some steps to improve healthcare Athena SWAN Bronze Institutional Award application is a code of conduct which asks all institution to reframe all policies, programs and practices relating to gender disparity groups. It supports all transgender stuffs and students to build discrimination free society(Napier, 2014). It aims the problem to be incorporated and addressed in depth. Australian Human Rights Commission ensures all rights to transgender just like normal gender people in every sector including sexual reassignment surgery to remove complications. Australian legal services are providing divorce to avoid same sex marriage with ease. To apply Athena SWAN Bronze Institutional Award application, there is no need to require quantitative data on transgender stuffs in workplace. Section 6 is stating special clause to support transgender people. If data is required to improve their life, then any institution can collect data with consideration of anonymity; secure storage, confidentially that not to breach their privac y in any extent. I think they must have right not to disclose their gender history in this collection process to stop being assaulted. Conclusion I notice one better step here to stop cultural discrimination. There are various laws to protect discrimination:Federal law protections, State and territory law protections, School anti-bullying programs. I think Gender dysphoria treatment is best way to stop discrimination with help of legal aids provided by State. If people are not accepting transgender people with eases then legal help is a must to build a society with no discrimination. Inclusion of a new group needs time and care as cultural inclusion is a lengthy process. 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