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Transgender Flashcards

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Why is this important?

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  • WE MUST CARE FOR EVERYONE
  • The join commission: Nondiscrimination standard
  • Healthy people 2020
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Gender Identity

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-an individuals sense of being male, female, both, or neither

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Sexual orientation

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-describes intimate human relationships, including sexual, romantic, or both types of connections

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Medical transition

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-includes cross-sex hormones, gender -affirming surgeries and other body modifications

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Transgender

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-an adjective used when an individuals sex assigned at birth does not correspond to their gender identity

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Gender expression

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-is associated with one’s physical presentation, communication patterns, and behavior used to express aspects of gender identity

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Male to female

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Trans woman: individuals assigned male and identify as female (MTF)

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Female to male

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FTM - assigned female and identify as male

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Gender nonconforming

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-Trans persons have a gender presentation or expression that is at odds with cultural expectations

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LGBTQ

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-lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning

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Queer

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political, orientation, encompasses a lot

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Gender binary

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there should a spectrum, not just male and female

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Gender Identity

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in the brain

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How many adults identify as transgender?

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-1.5 million

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Discrimination in healthcare

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-50% reported having to teach their medical providers
19% were refused medical care
28% were subjected to harassment in medical settings
28% postponed medical care due to discrimination by providers
33% delayed or did not try to get preventative health care
due to discrimination by health care providers
-if health care providers knew the patient was transgender, the likelihood of discrimination increased

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Suicide

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41% lifetime suicide attempts for trans-identified adults

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Mortality

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Increase in overall mortality due to suicide, AIDS, cardiovascular disease, and drug abuse

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Cross sex hormone use

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safe w clinician

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mental health

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-suicide rate - veterans - 20x higher
adults - over 10x higher
Higher levels of depression anxiety, etc

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Trans of color

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49x higher rate of being infected with HIV infection worldwide

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HIV in trans

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over 4 x the national average of HIV infection

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Gender identity and development

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-Enviro influences, gender schemas, and societal enforcement

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Early gender dev awareness of gender identity

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  • Between ages 1 and 2: conscious of physical differences between genders
  • At 3 years old, label themselves as boy or girl
  • by age 4: gender Identity????
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Why are so many kids coming out as trans?

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  • various ages across the course of normal child and adolescent dev
  • community driven terms
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Insist

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-will insist that they are the opposite sex (cross sex gender identity

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Consisten

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  • express their gender in ways traditionally associated with the opposite sex
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Persists

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  • children may inquire about when they will receive genitalia aligned with their cross sex gender identity
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Children and adolescents

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  • cross gender expression, role playing
  • wanting other gender body parts
  • not liking one’s gender and body
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Gender affirming care

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  • assess for gender dysphoria
  • treatment for occurs through gender affirming interventions
  • steps taken to align social and physical gender presentations and characteristics with one’s authentic gender identity
  • four main categories: social transition, puberty suppression, cross sex hormones, gender affirming surgeries
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Cross sex hormone therapy

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  • pubertal development aligned with gender identity
  • administration of exogenous cross sex hormones
  • feminizing: estrogen; pills, patch, injection; androgen blocker: usually spironolactone pills
  • masculinizing: testosterone: subcutaneous or intramuscular injection

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