When discussions about gender-affirming care are brought up, the immediate attention is often paid to gender-affirming surgeries, in which people alter their bodies through plastic surgery, urology, gynecology or a number of other methods. This can include “top surgery,” in which a person has ...
Diana M. Tordoff, from University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues investigated changes in mental health during the first year of receipt of care among 104 adolescents andyoung adults(ages 13 to 20 years) seeking gender-affirming care from August 2017 to June 2018. The researchers found ...
Legendary shock-rockerAlice Cooperhas voiced his concerns regarding gender-affirming care, opining that it may have become a “fad.” “I’m understanding that there are cases of transgender, but I’m afraid that it’s also a fad, and I’m afraid there’s a lot of people claiming to b...
In 1993, Nirvana played the televised specialMTV Live and Loud. The concert took place in Seattle, with the Breeders and Cypress Hill also on the bill (Pearl Jam had also been booked as part of the show but pulled out when Eddie Vedder got sick). The whole thing was hosted by Anthony...
Gender-Affirming Surgical Needs in a National Sample of Transgender and Gender Diverse Veteransdoi:10.1007/s11606-024-09282-9Littman, Alyson J.Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, USAJeon, Amy
For example, gender diverse youth may be the most active online [4], likely due to increased identity-based hostility and difficulty accessing gender-affirming care. Similarly, rural LGBTQ+ youth can reduce geographic isolation by using ICTs to circumvent potentially unsupportive offline communities ...
One of the important things is to be aware of your state laws, know if your state has a shield law—which, in states that have shield laws, they protect individuals seeking gender affirming care. You see patients who are going out of state, like from Texas to Seattle, to Washington, ...
There is a therapeutic aspect of gender affirming care, and this bill allows shelter providers to contact DCYF rather than the individual's parents. It is a very unfortunate truth that many transgender youth are not in ...
What is gender-affirming care? Gender-affirming care is a broad term for many distinct treatments provided to children, teens, and adults. Puberty blockers, for example, are medications that inhibit puberty by suppressing the body's production of sex hormones, while hormone therapy is the adminis...
results, researchers concluded that telehealth supported access to care for TGD youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. But they noted that further research is required to better understand the ongoing disparities that youth of color and rural youth face when attempting to access gender-af...