Transgender Affirmative Research
Major physical and mental health professional associations endorse the value of transgender-affirmative care and emphasize the medical necessity of gender affirmative health care. Here, we have provided links to some of these associations and some of the peer-reviewed research in this area.
Transgender Affirmative Professional Associations
- American Medical Association
- American Psychological Association
- National Association of Social Workers
- World Professional Association for Transgender Health
- National Commission on Correctional Health Care
- American Public Health Association
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- GLMA – Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality
Transgender Affirmative Research
This is just a sampling of articles. Email [email protected] to add to our list.
- The Lancet – Series on Transgender Health (2016).
- PDF Document: Bibliography of Transgender Literature: 2000-2010
- Padula, W. V., Heru, S., & Campbell, J. D. (2015). Societal implications of health insurance coverage for medically necessary services in the U.S. transgender population: A cost-effectiveness analysis. Journal of General Internal Medicine.
- Crosby, R. A., Salazar, L. F., and Hill, B. J.. Transgender Health. May 2016, 1(1): 86-93.
- Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care – Transgender Health and HIV Care (2009).
- Beyrer, C., Blum, R. W., & Poteat, T. C. (2016). Op-ed: Hopkins faculty separate themselves from controversial sexuality and gender report. Baltimore Sun.