“Because you hear stories from other trans women that are like, ‘Oh they’re horrible — (doctors will) tell you to leave,’ or, ‘Oh, we don’t do men here.’ It’s that kind of way that we are dismissed as being a non-entity,” she said. “I internalized it at the beginning of my diagnosis, you know. I had to stop that self-blame and seek out my own health no matter what kind of obstacles there are.”