ABSTRACT
Kierkegaard’s ethics have not often been questioned in relation to contemporary issues surrounding gender. But, his pluriform conception of ethics as an existence under the determination of choice, as the sphere of morality, and as the relationship between the individual and society, opens up perspectives for the medical practitioner who is to treat gender non-conforming or transgender patients. In this chapter I will show how taking seriously Kierkegaard’s definition of ethics both allows us to understand the lived experience of patients and points us towards an approach of medicine as listening. Through a Kierkegaardian approach we cease to consider patients as particular cases of general laws and instead see them for the individuals they are: individuals with specific needs we must attend to.
