For whom is ignorance bliss? Ignorance, its functions and transformative potential in trans health

Trans people face biases and barriers in healthcare including health professionals’ lack of training knowledge trans health, bodies, identities. Interactions between professionals have been analysed as a site fraught with historical power imbalances, epistemological struggles that position at disadvantage one where negotiations access to adequate services treatment continue. In this paper, I highlight the need pay attention not only how about bodies possibilities is produced, negotiated contested, but also moments claimed and/or actual ignorance take place healthcare. Applying feminist lens, ask what stake function patient/health professional relationship. Such exploration crucial if we recognize practices are often entangled exclusion oppression. Methodologically, draw on qualitative in-depth interviews 18 UK conducted part larger research project health. analysing multi-faceted manifestations within data linking them taxonomies ignorance, explore can be critiqued transformed.