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It found that less than 0.1% of U.S. transgender and gender diverse (TGD) adolescents were prescribed puberty blockers or gender-affirming hormones—and that not a single patient under age 12 ...
A major component of transgender health care is gender-affirming care, the medical aspect of gender transition. Questions implicated in transgender health care include gender variance, sex reassignment therapy, health risks (in relation to violence and mental health), and access to healthcare for trans people in different countries around the ...
Gender-affirming care is a multidisciplinary approach that includes medically necessary and scientific evidence-based practices to help a person safely transition from their assigned gender ...
The critical element of gender dysphoria is the presence of clinically significant distress associated with the condition." [1] Individuals with gender dysphoria may or may not regard their own cross-gender feelings and behaviors as a disorder. Advantages and disadvantages exist to classifying gender dysphoria as a disorder. [3]
We now find ourselves in a place where, according to a new database, nearly 14,000 minors between 2019 and 2023 have undergone so-called “gender-affirming care,” all of which is experimental ...
Transgender healthcare misinformation primarily relies on manufactured uncertainty from a network of conservative legal and advocacy organizations. [8] [3] These organizations have relied on similar techniques to those used in climate change denialism, generating exaggerated uncertainty around reproductive health care, conversion therapy, and gender-affirming care.
Because of the psychological distress of gender dysphoria, many transgender people undergo gender-affirming care — credited by many trans adults as being a vital step toward living a full and ...
Research has shown that youth who receive gender-affirming support from their parents have better mental health outcomes than their peers who do not. [48] Gender-affirmative practices emphasize gender health. Gender health is an individual's ability to identify as and express the gender(s) that feels most comfortable without the fear of ...