What is gender-affirming care? Your questions answeredLink to Full ArticleCNN - Jen Christensen
Updated 9:40 AM EST, Wed December 4, 2024
Gender-affirming care is a multidisciplinary approach that includes medically necessary and scientific evidence-based practices to help a person safely transition from their assigned gender – the one a clinician assigned them at birth, based mostly on anatomic characteristics – to their affirmed gender – the gender by which the person wants to be known.
Although the term gender-affirming care came into the public's lexicon fairly recently, Dr. Madeline Deutsch, ... said the practice has been around for some time and is based on decades of scientific research.
Major mainstream medical associations – including the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the Endocrine Society, the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry – have affirmed the practice of gender-affirming care and agree that it's the gold standard of clinically appropriate care that can provide lifesaving treatment for children and adults.
"While we are always assessing the strength of the evidence for this kind of care, every major US medical association has found that the medical evidence is strong and in support of centers that provides this kind of care and have been doing so for decades ... -------------------------
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