Patients & Providers: GenderCare in the UK
Dr Lorimer’s work to establish GenderCare, a private practice, seeks to mitigate the barriers to care facing transgender patients in the UK.
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Patients & Providers: Affirming Practices for Gathering Research Data
As part of the first NIH-sponsored research exploring the impact of gender-affirming interventions for transgender youth, Mere feels a responsibility to create an environment of trust, safety, sensitivity, transparency, and honesty with each research participant.
Patients & Providers: Both Sides of the Coin
As a transgender medical provider, Keaton has educated other providers to make an impact in how they treat trans patients.
Patients & Providers: Redefining the Patient-Doctor Relationship
Dr Scott Mosser has established himself as one of the top surgeons in the transgender community. But how did he come to do this work when not a lot of doctors are doing it?
Patients & Providers: The Trans Buddy Program
What if there were doulas for health care? E. Kale Edmiston envisioned The Trans Buddy Program to help trans people access health care by pairing them with peer advocates. When navigating a system that so often leaves you out, having someone there who understands your needs can go a long way.
Patients & Providers: Obligation to Ethics
Mere’s education to become a Gender Specialist, Social Worker, and clinical researcher was intertwined with their own path to discovering their trans non-binary identity.
Patients & Providers: Binders of Our Own
Allie’s eyes were opened to the intricacies and realities of trans health after a student-patient partnership allowed her to connect with a transgender patient for the first time.
Patients & Providers: Expect Excellence
Dr. Acquaviva believes trans patients should not have to educate their providers. She uses her experiences as a cisgender lesbian social worker who is often misgendered to help her fellow providers competently care for transgender patients.
Featured Voices: Prohormones
Prohormones Growing up, I had always felt a little off. I simply didn’t share the interests of boyfriends, wedding fantasies, or fashion, switching early on from dresses and skirts to […]
Featured Voices: The Phases of Testosterone
Rejection. Angst. Curiosity. Acceptance. Grief. Unraveling their relationship with testosterone, Audley cycled through a rollercoaster process of emotions.
