As more patients seek gender-affirming care, insurers deviate from international guidelines and create additional benchmarks that may act as barriers to care.doi:10.1097/01.GOX.0000720516.21957.1dNgaage, Ledibabari M.Xue, ShanBorrelli, Mimi R....
Indeed, that was the point. The University of Virginia Medical Center in nearby Charlottesville had a clinic specifically for women like Rhoda. In fact, doctors there had been prescribing hormones and performing surgeries—what today we would call gender-affirming care—for years. The founder of t...
Some have expressed concern about a lack of data on the possible long-term consequences of gender-affirming medical treatment for minors. A 2022Reuters investigation, for example, found “no large-scale studies have tracked people who received gender-related medical care as child...
Gender-affirming care, as America understands it, stipulates counselling, which can lead to puberty-blocking drugs and subsequently cross-sex hormones (testosterone for girls and oestrogen for boys—used, by one estimate, in 10% of cases).美国人所理解的性别认同护理规定的咨询，可能导致使用青春期阻...
At a time when gender-affirming care is in the political spotlight—especially in state houses across the country seeking to make it more difficult to obtain this kind of care—we sat down with the leader of one of the most respected transgender and nonb
Health insurance coverage of gender-affirming top surgery in the United States. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2019;144(4):824-833. doi:10.1097/PRS.0000000000006012PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 11. Padula WV, Baker K. Coverage for gender-affirming care: making health insurance work for ...
The US supreme court agreed on Monday to decide the legality of a Republican-backed ban in Tennessee on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, as the justices waded into another contentious issue implicating LGBT rights. They took up an appeal by US pres...
Gender-affirming healthcare for adolescents includes a range of services like social affirmations, puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery.
Transition looks different for each person. But generally, the goal of gender-affirmation care, sometimes called gender-affirming care, is to help your outward traits match your gender identity. Nonsurgical Treatments Which gender affirmation therapies you choose will differ depending on your own goals...
Experts say that access to gender-affirming care can be alife-or-death issuefor trans youth. Astudy published in the journal Pediatricsfound that nearly 51% of female-to-male respondents had attempted suicide, while the average youth suicide rate in the U.S. is 9%, accord...