Knowledge of gender-affirming genitourinary surgical procedures, including preoperative, intraoperative, postoperative, and aftercare, is essential for delivering patient-centered, quality care by physician associates/assistants (PAs) practicing in urology. Taking a patient-centered approach toward the patient'...
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 ...
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 ...
Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce ban on gender-affirming care for most minors "It is unusual for us to give a potentially life-changing treatment to young people and not know what happens to them in adulthood, and that's been a particular problem, that we haven't had the f...
As more states move to enforce health care restrictions, families of transgender youths are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need at clinics with growing waiting lists. In the wake of the Texas law, CBS News Texas reported on a Fort Worth church thatlaunched a pr...
He announced that he agreed with several concerns from the legislature and will draft rules for gender-affirming care moving forward -- including bans on surgeries for minors, reporting and data collection on those who receive care, as well as restrictions on "pop-up clinics" that serve the...
Gender-affirming care Key points Introduction Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals, comprise at least 7% of adults in the United States.1 This rate is increasing over time, particularly among US young adults aged ...
But in the wake of the report on the leaked messages, Safer says that it’s more important than ever for clinics to publish and promote the evidence for gender-affirming care. “If the trusted site isn’t even there,” he said, “that’s going to be a problem.”...
In the week after Trump signed the order,clinics and hospitals around the countrymade public announcements they were suspending gender-affirming care for those under the age of 19 but later in February resumed the care after stateattorneys generalwarned denying the treatment could violate states’ an...
Related article Immediate access to gender-affirming hormone therapy eases distress, depression, suicidal thoughts for transgender adults, research finds “That these patients benefited from care in these various primary care clinics in a diversity of communities suggests that effective gender affirmative ...