Transgender Health
LGBT Youth Consult
Room for Improvement in Screening for Sexually Transmitted Diseases
We must continue to aggressively screen patients for sexually transmitted infections in all patients who are at risk to get patients on treatment...
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Gender and Sports: Can Science Enable Fair Competition?
Genetic, chromosomal, and hormonal factors can be involved in the mixed presence of typical male and female characteristics.
Opinion
An Overview of Gender-Affirming Care for Children and Adolescents
It is important to clarify which treatments are considered for children and which are considered for adolescents.
Conference Coverage
Pediatricians Face Competing Goals in Well Visits for LGBTQ+ Adolescents
Eliciting adolescent sexual orientation and gender identity is a delicate step.
Child Psychiatry Consult
The Importance of Family Therapy for Transgender Youth
A powerful predictor of good mental health outcomes for transgender youth is parental support and acceptance.
Beyond the White Coat
Half-Truths Produce Whole Failures in Health Policy
A major problem currently facing medicine is the public’s trust in expertise.
LGBT Youth Consult
Welcoming LGBTQ Patients
Pediatric healthcare offices and staff should be as welcoming as possible to LGBTQ patients.
Letters from Maine
Freedom of Speech and Gender-Affirming Care
The topic of gender dysphoria in adolescence has become a third rail that must be approached with caution.
LGBT Youth Consult
DoxyPEP: A New Option to Prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections
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The Struggle to Provide Gender-Affirming Care to Youth
Gender-affirming care has been restricted in about half of US states and there have been increasing threats of violence against physicians,...
Conference Coverage
Five times greater suicide risk for trans, gender-diverse teens in ED
Suicide rates in transgender and gender-diverse youth are high in the U.S., but current methods of identifying trans and gender-diverse youth in...