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Blog & News / Blog: Medical Transgender

January 23, 2022 / Medical Transgender

BMD higher for transgender men, lower for transgender women vs cisgender controls

Transgender men receiving testosterone have higher total volumetric bone mineral density than cisgender women, whereas transgender women on estradiol have lower volumetric BMD compared with…

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November 2, 2021 / Medical Transgender, Transgender News

Supreme Court won’t take up Catholic hospital appeal over surgery for transgender man

The Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal from a Catholic hospital in California that was sued after refusing to perform a hysterectomy for…

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October 19, 2021 / Medical Transgender

Colorado to require private health insurance carriers to cover gender-affirming care for transgender patients

  The change, which goes into effect in 2023, requires carriers to cover care like hormone therapy, facial feminization, and top surgery.      …

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October 4, 2021 / Medical Transgender

Opinion: The pandemic forced my wife to fight our insurer over hormones

GUNNISON — For the past eight years, my wife, Ky Hamilton, has undergone gender-affirming hormone therapy. As a transgender woman, she injects Depo-Estradiol liquid estrogen…

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September 23, 2021 / Medical Transgender

Transgender people report years of battles for health insurance coverage

Alejandra Caraballo, 30, spent three years and countless hours after work — which “felt like a second part-time job” at times — putting together hundreds…

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September 18, 2021 / Medical Transgender, News

Transgender men speak out about alleged discrimination at Highland Hospital

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Two local men say they were discriminated against at a Rochester hospital. Trey Lowery and Cori Smith are transgender men and…

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August 24, 2021 / Medical Transgender

Transgender man sues Virginia Corrections Department over surgery denial

An incarcerated transgender man filed a complaint Wednesday against the Virginia Department of Corrections, or VADOC, for denying him surgery and other treatment for gender…

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August 17, 2021 / Medical Transgender

First of a kind study to look at 300 Gender Confirmation Surgical outcomes

Photo by Rusty Watson on Unsplash The 5-Year Longitudinal Study is First to Examine Post-Surgical Psychosocial Adjustment, Quality of Life and Long-Term Physical and Emotional Wellbeing of Transgender…

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July 5, 2021 / Medical Transgender

Transgender medicine – what care looks like, who seeks it out and what’s still unknown

THE CONVERSATION — Transgender people continue to be the focus of political culture wars in the U.S. In the spring of 2021, lawmakers in many…

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June 20, 2021 / Medical Transgender

VA to offer Gender Confirmation Surgery to Transgender Veterans

Secretary of Veteran Affairs Denis McDonough (Photo courtesy of Veterans Affairs) Secretary Denis McDonough is expected to announce that transgender veterans will be offered gender…

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May 27, 2021 / Medical Transgender

‘Keeps me up at night’: Doctors who care for transgender minors brace for bans

May 27, 2021, 4:42 AM EDTBy Jo Yurcaba “I worry about what might happen to my patients if these bills are passed and worry about going…

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May 26, 2021 / Medical Transgender

Criminalization of Gender-Affirming Care — Interfering with Essential Treatment for Transgender Adolescents

Criminalization of Gender-Affirming Care — Interfering with Essential Treatment for Transgender Children and Adolescents Simona Martin, B.S., Elizabeth S. Sandberg, M.D., and Daniel E. Shumer,…

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