Puberty blockers for transgender and gender diverse youth—a critical review of the literature

L Rew, CC Young, M Monge… - Child and Adolescent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Increasingly, early adolescents who are transgender or gender diverse (TGD)
are seeking gender‐affirming healthcare services. Pediatric healthcare providers supported …

Health and health care of sexual and gender minorities

N Hsieh, SM Shuster - Journal of Health and Social …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Research on the social dimensions of health and health care among sexual and gender
minorities (SGMs) has grown rapidly in the last two decades. However, a comprehensive …

Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of transgender and gender nonbinary individuals engaged in a longitudinal cohort study

JD Kidd, KB Jackman, R Barucco… - Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
While the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States disproportionately impacts marginalized
communities, no empiric US-based research has focused specifically on transgender and …

National estimates of gender-affirming surgery in the US

JD Wright, L Chen, Y Suzuki, K Matsuo… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance While changes in federal and state laws mandating coverage of gender-
affirming surgery (GAS) may have led to an increase in the number of annual cases …

Transgender-related insurance denials as barriers to transgender healthcare: differences in experience by insurance type

M Bakko, SK Kattari - Journal of general internal medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Insurance-based denials are common barriers for transgender and non-binary
individuals in accessing medically necessary gender-affirming care. Little is known about …

Sex is as sex does: Governing transgender identity

P Currah - Sex Is as Sex Does, 2022 - degruyter.com
Every government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to Departments of
Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for sex classification. Many …

[HTML][HTML] Guiding the conversation—types of regret after gender-affirming surgery and their associated etiologies

SK Narayan, R Hontscharuk, S Danker… - Annals of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background A rare, but consequential, risk of gender affirming surgery (GAS) is post-
operative regret resulting in a request for surgical reversal. Studies on regret and surgical …

Ethnoracial inequities in access to gender-affirming mental health care and psychological distress among transgender adults

E Lett, MP Abrams, A Gold, FA Fullerton… - Social Psychiatry and …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Transgender people face known barriers to accessing mental health care
generally, and gender-affirming care in particular. However, little research has been done to …

Ethical issues in gender-affirming care for youth

LL Kimberly, KMB Folkers, P Friesen, D Sultan… - …, 2018 - publications.aap.org
Transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) youth who suffer from gender dysphoria
are at a substantially elevated risk of numerous adverse physical and psychosocial …

Facial feminization surgery: the ethics of gatekee** in transgender health

A Dubov, L Fraenkel - The American Journal of Bioethics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The lack of access to gender-affirming surgery represents a significant unmet health care
need within the transgender community, frequently resulting in depression and self …