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Doctors often aren’t trained on the preventive health care needs of gender-diverse people – as a result, many patients don’t get the care they need

  • Written by Jenna Sizemore, Assistant Professor of Medicine, West Virginia University
Doctors often aren’t trained on the preventive health care needs of gender-diverse people – as a result, many patients don’t get the care they needGender-diverse adults have a harder time getting effective primary and preventive health care than their nontransgender counterparts.Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images

Preventive health care – such as cancer screening – is a critical tool in the early detection of disease. Missed screening can result in a missed diagnosis,...

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