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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"transgender health"”.
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The Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Transgender Health Resource Bundle
<p>Transgender populations experience disproportionate social and health disparities that can negatively impact quality of life. Healthcare barriers due to gender based discrimination and lack of medical insurance and culturally competent providers contribute to low levels of access to preventative …
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The Health Status of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Adults
<p>Contemporary, empirically-based knowledge of transgender health is scant and lacks understanding of physical health, health problems or impairments, chronic health conditions, and the impact of individual factors known to affect health outcomes in other vulnerable populations such as …
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Well-Being and Suicidality Among Transgender Youth After Gender-Affirming Medical Interventions
… in the management of gender dysphoria (GD) among transgender adolescents to relieve the distress associated with pubertal development and/or their existing secondary sex characteristics. This study is a longitudinal evaluation of the effectiveness of these approaches for improving psychological …
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An exploration into the meaning that trans* students attach to their experiences at a South African University
… initiatives to create an inclusive culture, transgender and gender diverse students may still feel that they are treated unfairly due to stigmatisation or poorly implemented diversity policies. Studies have focused mainly on the gender binary practice of transgender individuals assimilating …
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Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions of the Transgender Body in the 21st Century
… looks at an intra-community discourse in the transgender community between “transtrenders” and “transmedicalists” or “truscum.” It observes how these different sub-communities conceive of what it means to be transgender and attempts to contextualize these conceptions within transgender …
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Standardizing Injustice in Transition-related Medicine?: An Institutional Ethnography of How Assessment Protocols Coordinate Inequitable Access to Hormones and Surgeries in Canada
Transgender (trans) people experience barriers to transition medicine such as cross-sex hormones and sex reassignment surgeries. In response, standardized care protocols, such as the World Professional Association of Transgender Health standards of care (WPATH-SOC), are recommended to improve gaps …
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A Clinical audit of the transgender unit at Groote Schuur hospital
Background The Transgender Clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) – a large government funded academic hospital in Cape Town, South Africa - assists with the mental health assessment of transgender individuals and facilitates access to other gender affirming services, such as hormone therapy, …
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Mental health of transgender people in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Inequities, minority stress, and protective factors
… Aotearoa/New Zealand Trans and Non-Binary Health Survey recruited a total of 1,178 transgender people aged 14 or older (Mage = 29.5) who lived in Aotearoa/New Zealand. This comprehensive survey included mental health measures from Aotearoa/New Zealand population-based surveys, as well as …
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Falling Between the Cracks: Compound Identity Discrimination Within Primary Healthcare
… physicians (PCPs) are ill-equipped to support transgender and/or gender non-conforming (TGNC) people and also racialized people, with the majority of these professionals reporting little or no education about the nuances of either TGNC or racialized peoples’ health. As a result, individuals who …
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(Im)possible childhoods: contesting healthcare for gender and sex diverse youth
This study explores health provision for gender and sex diverse (GSD) children and young people in National Health Service (NHS) settings in England, Wales and Scotland. Recent years have been a time of profound challenge to traditional ideas about gender and identity. Young people have been …
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Inequities in access to mental health care at intersections of race/ethnicity, gender identity, and gender modality: An application of Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA)
Transgender populations, and particularly transgender women of color, are burdened by high rates of both mental illness and healthcare avoidance. Despite this, research examining the patterns of non-use of mental healthcare within this community is lacking, and has further suffered due to the …