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Transgender (trans) people experience many challenges in health-care settings including difficult access to care and discrimination from health-care personnel. Providers often lack the knowledge, vocabulary, or experience to optimally care for trans individuals. Providers who care for trans individuals perioperatively can improve patient care by developing an awareness of the challenges that trans patients experience in health-care settings, knowing and using appropriate terminology, and providing recommendations regarding perioperative management for patients on hormonal therapy.
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Jennifer Wright, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
Tyra Fainstad, MD, Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
Kamala Jain, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
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Pratt, A., Jackson, M.B. (2020). Care of Transgender Individuals. In: Jackson, M., Huang, R., Kaplan, E., Mookherjee, S. (eds) The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19704-9_45
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