ArticleCell reports. Medicine2022
Medicine as constraint: Assessing the barriers to gender-affirming care.
Article in Cell reports. Medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Examining access to gender-affirming surgery: A community-based thematic analysis of structural and systemic barriers and supports.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2025Article
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- Harry Benjamin and the birth of transgender medicine.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2023Article
- Voices from a Multidisciplinary Healthcare Center: Understanding Barriers in Gender-Affirming Care-A Qualitative Exploration.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- My personality is not disordered, and neither is my gender. Response to: Evaluation of personality disorders in patients with gender identity disorder (GID).Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2023Article
- Inaccessibility of care and inequitable conceptions of suffering: a collective response to the construction of "terminal" anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Primary sources of health care among LGBTQ+ veterans: Findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.Health services research · 2023Article
- Medical considerations in the care of transgender and gender diverse patients with eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Review
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Abstract
In this commentary, we describe the way in which science has been used to constrain transgender peoples' access to gender-affirming care. The required diagnosis of gender dysphoria is rooted in both the historical assumption that psychological distress is an inherent aspect of being transgender and the incorrect notion that gender-affirming care is a panacea for the mental health issues that transgender people may experience, regardless of whether these mental health issues are related to their being transgender. We provide recommendations for how to address these barriers to care moving forward.
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