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The first case-based comprehensive textbook to address the unique health care needs of transgender and gender diverse adultsA Doody's Core Title for 2024 & 2023!Demand for state-of-the-art health care services for transgender and gender diverse communities is rapidly increasing.
Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: The Fenway Guide offers a roadmap for clinicians to provide culturally responsive care that meets the primary, preventive, and specialty health needs of transgender and gender diverse adult patients.
With the most up-to-date scientific and clinical information, this practical guide reviews new data on terminology, demographics, and epidemiology; highlights key aspects of gender identity emergence across the lifespan; and provides guidance on both hormonal and surgical gender affirmation. Applying a health-equity model of care, this invaluable resource offers a foundation for clinicians when addressing health needs of transgender and gender diverse communities.
Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: The Fenway Guide features essential information that includes the following topics and more:
- The history and epidemiology of transgender and gender diverse health care
- Primary, preventive, and specialty care considerations for transgender and
gender diverse patients - Hormonal, surgical and non-medical gender affirmation
- Trauma-informed and gender-affirming care
- Behavior health, eating disorders and body positivity
- Reproductive health, obstetrical care, and family building
- Treatment of HIV and sexually transmitted infections
- Community building, advocacy and partnership
About the author
Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH, is associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Gender Identity Program; director of the Division of Education and Training at The Fenway Institute.
Jennifer Potter, MD
, is professor of medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; co-chair and director of the LGBTQIA+ Population Health Program, The Fenway Institute; and advisory dean and director, William B. Castle Society, Harvard Medical School.
Sari L. Reisner, ScD, is assistant professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; associate scientific researcher, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital; and affiliated research scientist, The Fenway Institute.
