Cultural Competency: Transgender Issues in Healthcare empowers healthcare professionals to provide more sensitive, safe, professional, and clinically effective care to transgender patients in need of appropriate referral, postoperative care, and general support. Cultural competency issues, patient safety, and risk management concerns tangential to this topic will be addressed, first by building the appropriate lexical foundation and then through examining case studies that demonstrate the impact of provider competency and cultural sensitivity on patient experiences and outcomes.