Specific challenges that a transgender client maybe facing

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What are some of the specific challenges that a transgender client maybe facing in his life?

What are treatment goals for transgender clients?
The general goal of treatment in gender identity disorder is to allow the individual to find lasting comfort with their gendered self, thus maximising their overall psychological well-being and self-fulfilment (World Professional Association for Transgender Health 2011).
Transgender people may seek any one of a number of gender-affirming interventions, including hormone therapy, surgery, facial hair removal, interventions for the modification of speech and communication, and behavioral adaptations such as genital tucking or packing, or chest binding.

More than 50 percent of transgender people experience sexual violence at some point in their lives.

1 This is more profound when coupled with the fact that transgender victims of sexual assault are even less likely to seek help than are other types of sexual assault victims. Why is this the case?

On the one hand, transgender people who have had (or have heard of others having) negative experiences with health care professionals, service providers, and law enforcement may decide not even to ask for help.

Sexual assault service providers, on the other hand, often have limited experience with transgender victims and little to no training on their special needs.