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The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) outlines that the LGBT population experiences below healthcare access and quality. According to HHS (2012) report, there are many reforms that would improve the Health and well-being of LGBT communities. This study focuses on ensuring that all healthcare providers have the ability to deliver quality cultural competence healthcare services to the LGBT population. According to HHS report (2012), healthcare institutions are recommended to conduct cultural competency training to the all prospective and practicing nursing. Lack of cultural competence physicians can create a barrier to the quality of healthcare towards the LGBT population especially the transgender.
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Even with the widespread recognition of the LGBT cultural problem and efforts to rectify it through physicians’ educations, the LGBT healthcare problems still persists. In the United States, there has been a thriving education system that aims to enrich the current and the future physicians with basic, general and specialized care competencies. In the recent healthcare industry, the stakeholders have emphasized the significance of including the cultural competency into the physicians’ curriculum and training. According to Surreira, (2014) the survey data and the federal policy makers in collaboration with LGBT advocacy groups have outlined that it is important to have medical students and physicians trained on LGBT culture and behaviors. The study concluded that the LGBT cultural competency deficiency and the existence of health disparities will remain pervasive unless all practitioners are trained. LGBT patient do experience substandard care, biases, health access barriers and poor quality competency when seeking healthcare. The above barriers and deficiencies mix to produce inefficient, inequitable, unsustainable and infeasible healthcare environments and conditions that exacerbate the differences in health and increased costs to patients, physicians and healthcare system. The purpose of the study is to explore through review and analysis of literature and policies that are relevant to the problems surrounding the LGBT cultural competency in