ALLMedicine™ Gender Identity Center

Feb 4th, 2023 - Sexual and gender minority (SGM) communities, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and Two-Spirit people, have historically been researched from a deficits-based approach that fails to highlight the ways communi...

Feb 4th, 2023 - To better understand health experiences among Two Spirit and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer and questioning (LGBTQ+) American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people, we examined experiences with access to health care of 223 AI/AN Two ...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - Sexual orientation and gender identity data are not collected by most hospitals or cancer registries; thus, little is known about the quality of breast cancer treatment for patients from sex and gender minority (SGM) groups. To evaluate the qualit...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) children and adolescents may experience not only gender dysphoria but also depression and anxiety, all of which are likely to be associated with reduced quality of life (QOL). Despite this, little is known abou...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - Transgender and/or gender-diverse (TGD) persons are vulnerable to stigma and health care inequities; however, data are particularly limited among TGD active duty military service members despite ongoing changes to service policies. TGD-related str...

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...

Jan 30th, 2023 - Alcohol use (AU) is strongly associated with dating violence (DV), and both DV and AU occur at alarmingly high rates among youth. Sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY) are no exception. Research suggests that DV and AU affects SGMY at rates sign...

Jan 26th, 2023 - 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 20th, 2022 - Gender dysphoria refers to an inner mental unrest resulting from an incongruity between the assigned biological sex and the mentally experienced sex. The generally accepted treatment for gender dysphoria aims to bring a person's physical character...

Nov 29th, 2022 - This is a prospective observational cohort study including all patients referred to the Center of Gender Identity Odense. The purpose is to follow patients yearly to observe patient reported outcomes and control the quality and effects of the clin...

Nov 15th, 2022 - Introduction 1.1. Transsexualism Transsexualism is a condition in which an individual's gender identity is incongruent with the assigned sex at birth. Many transsexuals suffer from severe psychological problems caused by this this incongruence, re...

Jan 18th, 2023 - Use of gender-affirming hormones (GAH) in transgender and nonbinary youth helped improve psychosocial functioning in a four-site prospective, observational study. In the study of 315 participants in the U.S., taking GAH was linked with a 0.48-poin...

Dec 5th, 2022 - Within months of first hearing about monkeypox spreading outside of endemic areas, Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, was appointed deputy coordinator of the White House Monkeypox Response Team. MedPage Today sat down with Daskalakis to discuss the tran...

Dec 2nd, 2022 - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The nation's first trial on a ban on gender-confirming care for children ended Thursday, as Arkansas wrapped up its case defending the prohibition with testimony from an endocrinologist opposed to such treatments for minor...

Dec 1st, 2022 - As leaders of the American Psychiatric Association, we received dozens of communications from members who were shocked by the discriminatory and transphobic commentary in the recent editorial “The accelerating societal entropy undermines mental he.

Nov 30th, 2022 - Latinx individuals have a lower overall risk of melanoma than non-Latinx Whites (NLW), but they are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced disease, and experience greater mortality. A new qualitative study of Latinx and low-income NLW individua...