ALLMedicine™ Gender Identity Center

May 14th, 2022 - As a group at high-risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) infection, the psychological distress of transgender women cannot be ignored while preventing and controlling AIDS risks. Transgender women are a vulnerable group, and their ps...

May 14th, 2022 - Child maltreatment is a devastating type of adverse childhood experience that encompasses neglect and emotional, physical, and sexual abuse (including sex trafficking). Adverse childhood experiences are exposures to maltreatment or household dysfu...

May 11th, 2022 - It has been over 50 years since the Stonewall Inn Riots in June 1969, a seminal event for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and other sexual and gender diverse minorities' (LGBTQI+, or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, q...

May 9th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis that refers to people whose gender at birth is contrary to the one they identify with. It is a product of highly complex genetic, neurodevelopmental, and psychological factors. Glossary of terms ...

May 6th, 2022 - Gender dysphoria (GD) is defined as a persistent and distressful incongruence between one's gender identity and one's at-birth-assigned sex. Sex reassignment has been religiously accepted for transgender individuals in postrevolutionary Iran since...

Feb 20th, 2022 - Adolescent and young adult (AYA) health care providers (HCPs) frequently serve sexual and gender-diverse (SGD) youth. Sexual orientation refers to a person's sexual identity in relation to the gender(s) to which they are attracted. Gender-diverse,...

Jun 1st, 2020 - Adolescent and young adult health-care providers often care for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) youth-youth whose gender identity is incongruent with the gender assigned to them at birth. This patient population faces health challenges distin...

Feb 15th, 2019 - The initial version of the Multicultural Guidelines, titled Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change for Psychologists, was published in 2002. Since then, there has been significant growth in r...

Jun 1st, 2017 - The purpose of this Position Statement is to emphasize the importance of an affirmative approach to the health care of transgender individuals, as well as to improve the understanding of the rights of transgender youth. Transgender youth have opti...

Jul 20th, 2016 - The purpose of this clinical report is to provide pediatricians updated research on evidence-based sexual and reproductive health education conducted since the original clinical report on the subject was published by the American Academy of Pediat...

Mar 2nd, 2022 - Transgender women (trans women; individuals with a feminine and/or female gender identity who were assigned male at birth) are disproportionately affected by HIV. One of the most consistently reported contexts for HIV transmission among trans wome...

Dec 17th, 2021 - Transgender men (trans men; assigned female sex at birth but identify as male) are generally thought to be at low risk of HIV acquisition, perhaps because of the assumption that they have sex with cis-gender women. Emerging data from resource-rich...

Sep 9th, 2021 - This study will find out what the reference intervals are for common blood tests in transgender people taking hormone therapy. Reference intervals help doctors interpret blood test results. They are expressed as two numbers, and most normal result...

Aug 6th, 2021 - The TIME Study is a multi-centre cohort study, combined with a cross-sectional survey.The study will comprise recording clinical data from up to three visits over an 18-month period. The study visits will happen at the same time of routine clinica...

Sep 11th, 2019 - High School FLASH is a 15-session comprehensive sexual health curriculum designed for classroom settings in grades 9 to 12. The basis of High School FLASH is a public health approach to behavior change. The primary strategy used in the FLASH curri...

May 13th, 2022 - Legislation around LGBTQ+ education in schools made headlines recently after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis passed the "Don't Say Gay" bill, as it's come to be called by many. The legislation bars teachers and school systems from mentioning or inst...

May 6th, 2022 - In the years following their social transition, the vast majority of young transgender children continued to identify as such, a longitudinal study found. Among 317 transgender children, only 7.3% altered their gender identification -- or retransi...

May 6th, 2022 - MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A doctor testified Thursday that there will be devastating consequences for transgender adolescents if Alabama outlaws the use of gender-affirming medications for them, and that their medical providers would face jail time ...

May 4th, 2022 - Approximately 7% of youth who chose gender identity social transition in early childhood had retransitioned 5 years later, based on data from 317 individuals. "Increasing numbers of children are socially transitioning to live in line with their ge...

May 3rd, 2022 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said it filed a complaint on Friday challenging a law in Alabama that criminalizes some gender-affirming treatments for transgender youth. Earlier this month, Alabama's Republican governor signed ...