Gender affirming hormone therapy, impacts on fertility, and future family formationWhat providers need to know about family building for transgender and gender-nonbinary people beginning gender affirming hormone therapy.
What providers need to know about family building for transgender and gender-nonbinary people beginning gender affirming hormone therapy.
read the full article »Patient Perspective: The art of being a difficult (aka empowered) patientA series highlighting the lived experiences of getting sexual and reproductive health care.
How to practice medical self-advocacy to get the care you need
read the full article »Clinical minute: Emergency contraception for transgender or gender nonbinary patientsWhat providers need to know about offering emergency contraception (EC) to transgender and gender nonbinary (TGNB) patients.
What providers need to know about offering emergency contraception (EC) to transgender and gender nonbinary (TGNB) patients.
read the full article »Taking a transgender-inclusive sexual health historyWhat providers need to know about taking transgender-inclusive sexual health histories.
What providers need to know about taking transgender-inclusive sexual health histories.
read the full article »Research roundup: October 2019 editionThe CDC’s yearly STD report, potential for a trivalent vaccine for genital herpes in the future, hormonal contraceptive use among women with opioid use disorder, improved patient bleeding patters with correct fundal placement of IUDs, and more.
The CDC’s yearly STD report, potential for a trivalent vaccine for genital herpes in the future, hormonal contraceptive use among women with opioid use disorder, improved patient bleeding patters with correct fundal placement of IUDs, and more.
read the full article »Excellent care for LGBTQ patientsHere's how to be part of the solution when it comes to the health disparities LGBTQ people face.
We’ve known for a long time that LGBTQ people have health disparities compared to heterosexual and cis-gendered people. So what can you as a provider do to reduce these disparities?
read the full article »What do YOU use for birth control?Pros, cons, and alternatives when it comes to telling your patients about your own birth control method.
Self-disclosure by providers is a controversial topic in all areas of medicine. In the field of reproductive health, in which it’s common to discuss the most intimate of topics with our patients, self-disclosure is an especially important consideration. Studies by Evans and by Zapata suggest that, when appropriate, provider self-disclosure about contraception can be done without negative consequences. But how can we be certain that a situation is appropriate? And in circumstances when a clinician isn’t using birth control (e.g., she is trying to conceive; she is infertile; or, like me, she has a female partner), how should she handle the situation?
read the full article »Sex, Gender, and Orientation 101But when it comes to human sexuality, words are important.
For folks who have never questioned their sex, gender, orientation, or preferred pronoun, it may be a challenge to keep up with patients who have spent years thinking about these questions themselves. But when it comes to human sexuality, words are an important tool that we as providers can use to better understand our patients.
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