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  • Cultural competence: acting professionally and ethically when providing transgender patients with quality healthcare.
    1. Being culturally competent does not mean you need to agree with your patients’ belief systems. Instead, it means that you can create meaningful interactions and relationships with patients in intercultural settings.
  • Clinical competence: assessing for gender incongruence across various patient ages and gender identities, and providing gender-affirming treatment including hormone therapies and surgeries, as well as primary care, reproductive healthcare, mental healthcare, and more.

    • Transgender healthcare is a constantly developing field, and as such, competence is dynamic and changing.

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    Respect and sensitivity

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    Reproductive care

    “I tell my patients early that we work with diverse people, and I welcome you to share anything that you feel is relevant for me to know so I can provide you with the best possible care. If there is anything about your body, gender, identity or sexual health that you want to discuss, don’t hesitate to do so.”

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    Physical examinations

    Policy flexibility

    Possible interactions and contraindications for HRT

    This section is incomplete due to lack of available research. We’ll update this when more research surfaces.

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  • The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), an association of healthcare professionals and experts working with transgender health, published its eight edition of its Standards of Care guidelines. You can read them here.
  • WPATH offers Global Education Institute Certified Training Courses on best practice guidelines in trans health and mental healthcare.