Training in Gender Affirming Care is Medically Necessary – American Board of Family Medicine, Inc.

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Training in Gender Affirming Care is Medically Necessary

2024

AUTHOR(S)

Fallin-Bennett, K
Arterburn, M
Marks, S T

TOPIC(S)

Education & Training
What Family Physicians Do

KEYWORD(S)

Graduate Medical Education
Policy Brief Commentaries

VOLUME

37(5):976-978

SOURCE

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

In July 2023, Senate Bill 150 (SB150) became law in Kentucky, the home of these authors as well as the American Board of Family Medicine. SB150 bars medical providers from prescribing puberty-blockers, gender affirming hormone therapy, or surgery to minors.[1][1] The wave of antitransgender

Commentary

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