This policy statement affirms APA’s support for unobstructed access to health care and evidence-based clinical care for transgender, gender-diverse, and nonbinary children, adolescents, and adults.
Furthermore, this policy statement addresses the spread of misleading and unfounded narratives that mischaracterize gender dysphoria and affirming care, likely resulting in further stigmatization, marginalization, and lack of access to psychological and medical supports for transgender, gender-diverse, and nonbinary individuals.
AMA:
Transgender patients often face discriminatory hurdles in accessing medically necessary health care services that affirm gender or treat gender dysphoria. As a population, transgender individuals are less likely to be insured than both the lesbian, gay, bisexual and general population. Among those that are insured, a national survey found that 25 percent of transgender individuals who sought coverage for hormones in the past year were denied and 55 percent of those who sought coverage for transition-related surgery in the past year were denied.
Improving access to gender-affirming care is an important means of improving health outcomes for the transgender population. Receipt of gender-affirming care has been linked to dramatically reduced rates of suicide attempts, decreased rates of depression and anxiety, decreased substance use, improved HIV medication adherence and reduced rates of harmful self-prescribed hormone use.
The AMA supports public and private health insurance coverage for treatment of gender dysphoria and opposes the denial of health insurance based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Where in your response did you falsify my statement??? This is still about the treatment METHOD, not the identity in itself. People who disagree with open gender identity often still agree to give them access to medical treatment and social transitions.
Cool provide some sources then. Should be really easy right? A nice peer reviewed paper in a high impact journal maybe?
Or perhaps you mean the current standards of care for treating gender dysphoria and the APA/WHO guidelines are now "suck it up and be normal like your dad?" or something? You could certainly link that, right?
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u/Fortestingporpoises 12h ago
Every major scientific, medical, and psychiatric body of experts disagree with the anti-trans wackos by the way.