Experiences and nursing care for transsexuals and transvestites in primary care services

Observing that the applicability of the practices of nursing professionals to transgender and transvestite people is still lacking in what the principles of accessibility, responsibility, humanization and social participation consist of, this integrative literature review sought to analyze the scientific evidence of care provided by nursing professionals. nursing to transgender people and transvestites in health services in the databases: Virtual Health Library, Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences, Nursing Database, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrievel System Online, Bibliographic Index Español en Ciencias de la Salud through the descriptors: Transgender People, Care, Nursing provided by the DeCS platform, interconnected by the Boolean operator "AND" to facilitate the search for studies by the Virtual Health Library, with the inclusion criteria: studies in Portuguese, English and Spanish, published in the year s from 2011 to 2021; electronically available in full, free of charge and addressing the topic under study, and exclusion: duplicate articles, those that did not address the topic in focus, is not in full; theses and monographs. Data collection was guided by a semi-structured script for data organization containing the components: title; authors; occupation area; periodical; data base; year; country/language; goal; method; results and conclusion. The study had 10 scientific evidence as a sample result, which are presented in summary tables. The sample analysis identified the need to insert elements into academic training, residencies and specializations that contribute to training for transgender and transvestite people, also referring that currently the therapeutic approaches of some health professionals are still centered on the biomedical model and curative in the care of this population, demonstrating that the public health system is still not contemplating what public health policies advocate. It is hoped that this study will serve as a reflection and point to the development of new strategies for future studies from the management point of view, to make health services more inclusive environments and thus combat inequities in access to health for this social group.