Transgender patients face unique challenges and stressful situations when they engage with health care providers. That's why Rutgers New Jersey Medical School – which is exploring opening a transgender surgery center – ...
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It's a moment that most of us experience several times a day.
May 25, 2016
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Among military veterans identifying as transgender, 90 percent have at least one mental health diagnosis, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression, and nearly 50 percent had a hospitalization after a suicide ...
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Doctors are failing to help people with gender dysphoria, argues a leading doctor in The BMJ this week.
Mar 31, 2016
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As recently as a decade ago, research into resilience in sexual and gender minority youth tended to focus mainly on the adversity and trauma they endure. André P. Grace, professor in the University of Alberta's Department ...
Mar 10, 2016
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George Washington University (GW) Researcher Michael S. Irwig, M.D. published a first-of-its-kind survey assessing the attitudes and practice patterns of transgender care by endocrinologists, who often treat transgender patients ...
Feb 29, 2016
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Studies of mental health among transgender people in the United States have been consistently grim, showing higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicide.
Feb 26, 2016
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Appropriate data collection, staff training, LGBT patient education, and nondiscrimination policies are all needed now that the federal government has required that electronic health records (EHR) systems certified under ...
Feb 11, 2016
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South Australia should have a system that allows adults to change their registered sex or gender by a simple application to the Office of Births, Deaths and Marriages, according to law experts from the University of Adelaide.
Feb 10, 2016
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Transgender individuals may experience significant improvement in psychological functioning after as little as 3-6 months of hormone therapy, with improved quality of life reported within 12 months of initiating therapy by ...
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