Greater support needed for pregnant transgender men

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Greater support needed for pregnant transgender men

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/sp-gsn102715.php

EurekaAlert
Sage Publications
October 29, 2015

London, UK (October 29, 2015). Many transgender men who have the capacity to bear children are faced with barriers in the healthcare system as a result of a lack of training, argue Juno Obedin-Maliver and Harvey Makadon in a commentary published in SAGE journal Obstetric Medicine.

In recent years, transgender people have experienced significant advances in social acceptance which has led many organizations to look at their policies, programs, and educational materials to ensure that work with their sphere is both affirmative and inclusive. While programs that provide health care for transgender people have grown in recent years, the healthcare system has failed to adapt to address this need, as the researchers explain:

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