Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals continue to be medically underserved and subject to unique health care disparities, including higher rates of mental and physical ...
Specific health concerns
Transition-related medical care, or gender-affirming therapy, including hormone therapy and surgical treatment, or gender-affirming surgery (GAS), helps patients alig...
Care of transgender people, including hormone therapy, is within the scope of primary care providers.
Education of health care providers, for physicians, and those beginning i...
Discrimination on the part of health care providers is a major barrier to care.
Transmasculine individual...
F64.1 Gender identity disorder in adolescence and adulthood
Z11.4 Encounter for screening for human immunodeficiency virus
Z72.52 High risk homosexual behavior
Z72.53 High risk bisexual behavi...
Health care providers must be sensitive to the unique needs of transgender patients; must be open to the care of such patients; and should, as with all patients, display an ethical, pr...
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