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    The AFFIRM Framework for gender-affirming care: qualitative findings from the Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Equity Study by Meg Quint, Schuyler Bailar, Alexis Miranda, Shalender Bhasin, Devin O’Brien-Coon, Sari L. Reisner

    Published 2025-02-01
    “…Themes about gender-affirming care coalesced into the acronym AFFIRM: (1) Affirms in individual interactions: Participants called for affirmation of TGD identity, lived expertise, and competent TGD providers and staff. (2) Flexible and accessible: Participants expressed the need for gender-affirming care to be available beyond urban population-specific clinics, in a timely fashion without long wait lists, and in a community-centered manner such as offering non-traditional times and settings. (3) Fights systemic oppression: Participants emphasized the need for providers and health systems to eliminate gatekeeping practices for gender-affirming care and create care models that resist intersecting oppressive systems such as racism and cisgenderism. (4) Interacts with community: Patients desired intentional interaction with TGD community to holistically address health and unmet gender affirmation needs. (5) Retains patients in care: Patients shared the need to collaboratively identify and problem-solve obstacles to gender-affirming care with providers and healthcare systems to optimize TGD-specific retention strategies. (6) Multidisciplinary: Patients called for interdisciplinary teams with co-located services such as primary care and mental healthcare with letter-writing for surgical care, and incorporation of peer navigators to meet the broader social, health, and well-being needs of TGD people. …”
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    Response to the SAMHSA Clinical Advisory: Considerations for Genetic Testing in the Assessment of Substance Use Disorder Risk by Green RP, Blum K, Lewandrowski KU, Gold MS, Lewandrowski AP, Thanos PK, Dennen CA, Baron D, Elman I, Sharafshah A, Modestino EJ, Badgaiyan RD

    Published 2025-01-01
    “…Richard Paul Green,1 Kenneth Blum,2– 5 Kai Uwe Lewandrowski,5,6 Mark S Gold,7 Alexander PL Lewandrowski,8 Panayotis K Thanos,2,9 Catherine A Dennen,10 David Baron,3,11 Igor Elman,2,12 Alireza Sharafshah,13 Edward J Modestino,14 Rajendra D Badgaiyan15 1Precision Translational Medicine, LLC, San Antonio, Tx, USA; 2Department of Molecular Biology and Adelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel; 3Center for Sports, Exercise, Global Mental Health, Western University Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA; 4Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; 5Center for Advanced Spine Care of Southern Arizona and Surgical Institute of Tucson, Tucson, AZ, USA; 6Department of Orthopaedics, Fundación Universitaria Sanitas, Bogotá, DC, Colombia; 7Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, School of Medicine, St. …”
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