Research Guides: Transgender Health Care: Why Trans Health Care Matters

Why Does Transgender Health Care Matter?

The authors of this LibGuide recognize the importance of competent health care for all patients. This includes transgender and gender diverse patients. This page provides links and citations to some references that discuss the relevance and importance of transgender health care. Note that some of these articles are opinion-based articles. Critical reading of any article is important when reading something new.

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Some Readings

Medical Association Statements in Support of Health Care for Transgender People and Youth
- “Every major medical association and leading world health authority supports health care for transgender people and youth.”
The Benefits of Gender Affirming Care
- “A study published in JAMA Network Open by first-author Diana Tordoff, a Ph.D. graduate of the Department of Epidemiology, shows that access to puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormone therapy mitigates negative mental health outcomes.”
Gender Affirming Care Saves Lives
- “Research demonstrates that gender-affirming care—a medical and psychosocial health care designed to affirm individuals' gender identities—greatly improves the mental health and overall well-being of gender diverse, transgender, and nonbinary children and adolescents.”
Streed, C. G., Lunn, M. R., Siegel, J., & Obedin-Maliver, J. (2021, June). Meeting the patient care, education, and research missions: Academic medical centers must comprehensively address sexual and gender minority health. Academic Medicine, 96(6), 822-827. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000003703
- “The authors posit that by systematically improving clinical care of, incorporating education and training about, and research with LGBTQ+ people into their core missions, academic medical centers can dramatically change the health care landscape.”
Bhatt, N., Cannella, J., & Gentile, J. P. (2022). Gender-affirming Care for Transgender Patients. Innovations in clinical neuroscience, 19(4-6), 23–32.
- “This article will discuss some of the most common disparities and obstacles faced by transgender patients and will argue the paramount role of the provider in establishing gender-affirming care and some high-impact avenues which the provider, regardless of specialty, may pursue when caring for these patients.”