PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Paul D. Juarez
AU  - Aramandla Ramesh
AU  - Jayne S. Reuben
AU  - Asa E. Radix
AU  - Cheryl L. Holder
AU  - Katherine Y. Brown
AU  - Mohammad Tabatabai
AU  - Patricia Matthews-Juarez
TI  - Transforming Medical Education to Provide Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients: A Policy Brief
AID  - 10.1370/afm.2926
DP  - 2023 Feb 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - S92--S94
VI  - 21
IP  - Suppl 2
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/21/Suppl_2/S92.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/21/Suppl_2/S92.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2023 Feb 01; 21
AB  - Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) patients experience a greater burden of health disparities compared with their heterosexual/cisgender counterparts. Some of the poorer health outcomes observed in these populations are known to be associated with the prevalence of implicit bias, bullying, emotional distress, alcoholism, drug abuse, intimate partner violence, sexually transmitted infections (eg, human immunodeficiency virus and human papilloma virus), and cancer. The TGD populations face unique barriers to receiving both routine and gender-affirming health care (acquiring hormones and gender-affirming surgeries). Additional barriers to implementing affirming care training for TGD patients are lack of expertise among medical education faculty and preceptors both in undergraduate and in graduate medical education programs. Drawing on a systematic review of the literature, we propose a policy brief aimed at raising awareness about gender-affirming care among education planners and policy makers in government and advisory bodies.