“With more than 1 in 4 gender clinics located in states with restrictions, it is unknown whether existing clinics may have capacity to meet the increased need of out-of-state patients,” they added in reference to gender clinics that would be able to stay open. These trav...
” Irwig explains. He pulled them together to form a collaborative team and opened the BIDMC’s Gender-Affirming Services in February 2020, a framework that allowed him to recruit other practitioners. “Once we had this program, that then took us to new heights.”...
Yale pediatrician Meredithe McNamara has called puberty blockers "one of the most compassionate things that a parent can consent to for a transgender child," and in testimony to the US Congress, warned that when gender-affirming care "is interrupted or restricted, suicide, depression, anxiety, d...
Gender medicine is not new in pediatric and neonatal care. In 1971, Naeye et al. introduced the “hypothesis of the male disadvantage”, which describes the increased perinatal mortality in males compared with females [6]. In 2004, among the US population, the mortality rate for female infant...
Jennifer Prizkera billionaire and retired National Guard Lieutenant hails from a very influential Jewish family and is just one who funds the LGBTQ marketplace such as the LGBTQ line in Target. In addition, Prizker provides capital to gender clinics, hospitals and training doctors in sur...
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Despite these structural limitations to healthcare access, general health (i.e., overall health and health unrelated to gender affirming care) is considered one of the least researched aspects of transgender health [5, 6]. Access to healthcare We conceptualized healthcare access consistent with ...
Limited data exists regarding gender-specific microbial alterations during gender-affirming hormonal therapy (GAHT) in transgender individuals. This study aimed to investigate the nuanced impact of sex steroids on gut microbiota taxonomy and function, addressing this gap. We prospectively analyzed gut meta...
Since the turn of the century, we are witnessing a dramatic surge in the numbers of children and adolescents referred to gender clinics, this is happening in the context of general increase in numbers of individuals identifying as non-binary. The chapter
As a healthcare provider and a hetero mom of three kids, who also proudly works to provide health care for the queer community in one of the first clinics in the US that cared for the gay/trans/HIV community…What is evident to me is that the there are so many people who will suppor...