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Unbending the Light: Changing Laws and Policies to Make Transgender Health Visible; Reflections of an Advocate

This essay describes an instrumental advocate’s development, engagement, and accomplishments in transgender health at the intersection of law and medicine. Reflecting on the evolution of insurance policy reforms in conjunction with the need to increase the availability of clinicians who can understa...

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Autor principal: Green, Jamison
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9679584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36398650
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jme.2022.90
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spelling pubmed-96795842022-11-29 Unbending the Light: Changing Laws and Policies to Make Transgender Health Visible; Reflections of an Advocate Green, Jamison J Law Med Ethics Symposium Articles This essay describes an instrumental advocate’s development, engagement, and accomplishments in transgender health at the intersection of law and medicine. Reflecting on the evolution of insurance policy reforms in conjunction with the need to increase the availability of clinicians who can understand and respectfully treat transgender patients, the author demonstrates how visibility, tenacity, and ingenuity can create far-reaching change. Cambridge University Press 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9679584/ /pubmed/36398650 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jme.2022.90 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9679584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36398650
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