Embracing Difference: Towards an understanding of queer identities in medicine

In this chapter, Bintley and Winning discuss the impact of words on the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ healthcare professionals. Through their transdisciplinary writing collaboration they consider the complex relationship between health inequality and queer identity, especially in reference to the clinician's body. Using examples from literature, philosophy and empirical research they argue the need to appreciate as opposed to exclude difference in order to reduce discrimination and change perspectives on identity in healthcare. They go on to explain and explore the transformative possibility of intersectional transdisciplinarity as a way to do this calling on people to have difficult conversations in order to better understand and enable each others lived experiences.