The Impact of Gender Affirming Medical Care During Adolescence on Adult Health Outcomes Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals in the United States: The Role of State-Level Policy Stigma.

Gender affirming medical care (GAMC) aims to alleviate gender dysphoria by helping people align their physical body more closely with their gender identity. Bills seeking to limit or prohibit GAMC for trans children and adolescents have become a controversial topic. This study aimed to examine whether exposures to GAMC during adolescence are associated with adult psychological and general health outcomes, and to demonstrate the mechanism through which state-level legislation may work to moderate the association.

"I Don't Want to Spend the Rest of my Life Only Going to a Gender Wellness Clinic": Healthcare Experiences of Patients of a Comprehensive Transgender Clinic.

Background: Transgender individuals are less likely to have had a primary care visit in the last year than cisgender individuals. While the importance of multidisciplinary clinics for transgender care has been established, little is known about the healthcare experiences of transgender patients with these clinics.

Objective: To describe how patients experience transgender clinics and how these experiences compare to those experiences in other settings.

Eating disorder symptomatology in transgender patients: Differences across gender identity and gender affirmation.

Objective: Past studies have reported high rates of eating disorder (ED) symptomatology among transgender people, yet without consideration of gender affirmation. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between gender identity, gender affirming interventions such as gender affirming hormones (GAH) and gender affirming surgeries (GAS), and ED symptomatology.

Method: Transgender patients at a primary care outpatient gender health program in the United States completed a survey consisting of demographics, medical history, and clinical variables, including the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q).

Impact on patient satisfaction and importance of medical intake and office staff in a multidisciplinary, one-stop shop transgender program in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Background: Historically, the transgender population has postponed seeking primary care due to discrimination within social and medical settings. Very few studies have considered patient satisfaction with transgender care and whether there are differences in staff satisfaction. This cross-sectional study focuses on the satisfaction of transgender patients who receive primary care at a comprehensive, "one-stop shop" program in Indianapolis, IN, USA.